Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.

Proverb, Spanish

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Johnson, Samuel

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

La Bruyere, Jean De

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

11.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

12.

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

Jones, Franklin P.

13.

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

14.

Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Coolidge, Calvin

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I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Young, Brigham

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Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

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A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Duncan, Isadora

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A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Mencken, H. L.

24.

Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

27.

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

28.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.

Havel, Vaclav

30.

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

32.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

34.

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings.

Asoka

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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

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A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Butler, Samuel

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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Swift, Jonathan

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The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

40.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

41.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Moore, Thomas

42.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principles of fear or reason, but from passion.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law.

Sutrakritanga

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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

45.

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.

Proverb

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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.