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

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.

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Swift, Jonathan

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.

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

Mellor, David

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

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

10.

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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice -- however much we might desire it.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

14.

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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Frost, Robert

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Moore, Thomas

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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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

25.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Proverb

30.

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

Johnson, Samuel

31.

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

32.

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

33.

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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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

38.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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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 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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The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Jones, Sir William

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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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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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

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

Keats, John

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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.