Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Gladstone, William E.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Young, Brigham

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Moore, Thomas

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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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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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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

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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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.

33.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

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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.

Anacharsis

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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Voltaire

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proverb

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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