Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

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

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

Young, Brigham

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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

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Becker, Ward

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Welles, Orson

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Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Younger, Evelle

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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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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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.

41.

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

Voltaire

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Moore, Thomas

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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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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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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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