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

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Talmud, The

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Wilson, Earl

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Welles, Orson

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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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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 impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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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 law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

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

Proverb

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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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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Keats, John

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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 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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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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 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

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

Frost, Robert

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Macklin, Charles

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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Law, without force, is impotent.