Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings.

Asoka

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

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Young, Brigham

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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.

The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Stirner, Max

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

Puzo, Mario

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Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Mellor, David

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

Frost, Robert

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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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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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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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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.

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Irving, Washington

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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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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This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.