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

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

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.

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

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

10.

The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

Maxwell, James Clerk

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mencken, H. L.

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It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.

Becker, Ward

21.

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

Engels, Friedrich

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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

25.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

27.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

28.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

30.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

31.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

34.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

35.

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

Proverb

39.

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

43.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Pope, Alexander

45.

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

Keats, John

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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