Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Tocqueville, Alexis De

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Irving, Washington

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Capote, Truman

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Welles, Orson

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

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 judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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 severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Talmud, The

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Moore, Thomas

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Keats, John

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

Shakespeare, William

37.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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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.