Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Welles, Orson

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Moore, Thomas

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

Anacharsis

10.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Frost, Robert

11.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

Goldman, Emma

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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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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The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Macleish, Archibald

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

Arendt, Hannah

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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

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

Stirner, Max

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

Wilson, Earl

25.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

Trapp, June L.

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

30.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

31.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Burke, Edmund

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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

35.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Talmud, The

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When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Eliot, George

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The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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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Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Lafollette, Suzanne

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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

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In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one -- the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

Gordimer, Nadine

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Gladstone, William E.

48.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

Dickens, Charles

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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.