Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.

- Stirner, Max

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Talmud, The

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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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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

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

Martineau, Harriet

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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

Welles, Orson

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Macklin, Charles

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As soon as you begin to say We have always done things this way -- perhaps that might be a better way, conscious law-making is beginning. As soon as you begin to say We do things this way -- they do things that way -- what is to be done about it? men are beginning to feel towards justice, that resides between the endless jar of right and wrong.

Cam, Helen M.

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

Lippmann, Walter

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Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Wilson, Earl

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

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

Diderot, Denis

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Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Capote, Truman

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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Chandler, Raymond

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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

Keats, John

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.