Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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.

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

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Welles, Orson

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Engels, Friedrich

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Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.

Pope, Alexander

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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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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.

Becker, Ward

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Puzo, Mario

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

Proverb

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Voltaire

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Gladstone, William E.

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Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Bacon, Francis

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

Stirner, Max

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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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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.