Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Young, Brigham

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

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

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

Talmud, The

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

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

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

Moore, Thomas

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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

14.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

15.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Welles, Orson

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

32.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

La Bruyere, Jean De

33.

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

35.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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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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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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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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Keats, John

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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.