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

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

Talmud, The

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

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

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

Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.

Pope, Alexander

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

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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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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As soon as you begin to say We have always done things this way -- perhaps that might be a better way, conscious law-making is beginning. As soon as you begin to say We do things this way -- they do things that way -- what is to be done about it? men are beginning to feel towards justice, that resides between the endless jar of right and wrong.

Cam, Helen M.

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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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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Gladstone, William E.

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Frost, Robert

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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.

Havel, Vaclav

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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

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Engels, Friedrich

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Rulers were made to be broken.