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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Jones, Sir William

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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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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Epitaph

20.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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 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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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.

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

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

La Bruyere, Jean 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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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Engels, Friedrich

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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Proverb

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

Keats, John

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

Welles, Orson

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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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The good of the people is the greatest law.