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

Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Moore, Thomas

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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.

A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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

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

Engels, Friedrich

10.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

11.

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Talmud, The

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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

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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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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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

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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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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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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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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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Becker, Ward

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

Frost, Robert

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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