Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

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

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb

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The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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

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

Froude, James A.

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Montesquieu, Charles 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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Pope, Alexander

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Nizer, Louis

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Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Wilson, Earl

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

Epitaph

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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

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

Welles, Orson

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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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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 trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Lincoln, Abraham