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

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.

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Gladstone, William E.

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.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

Irving, Washington

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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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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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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

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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

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

18.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Talmud, The

21.

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

28.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Stirner, Max

33.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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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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He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Proverb

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Frost, Robert

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Keats, John

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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