Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Wilson, Earl

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Becker, Ward

The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

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.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Burke, Edmund

Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Welles, Orson

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

25.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Irving, Washington

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

37.

It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

39.

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

Voltaire

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

Keats, John

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

Talmud, The

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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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The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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