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

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Shakespeare, William

I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings.

Asoka

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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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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It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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

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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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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.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

Mellor, David

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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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

25.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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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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I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

Voltaire

28.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Becker, Ward

33.

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

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

Welles, Orson

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

Young, Brigham

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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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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

42.

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

Talmud, The

43.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

45.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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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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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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle