Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

Voltaire

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

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Cicero, Marcus T.

We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice -- however much we might desire it.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Moore, Thomas

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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 good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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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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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Welles, Orson

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

Mellor, David

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

Frost, Robert

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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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

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If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.

Ostman, Virginia

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Sade, Marquis De

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The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

Maxwell, James Clerk

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

Proverb

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Bismarck, Otto Von