Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Young, Brigham

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Shakespeare, William

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Becker, Ward

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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 more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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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 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

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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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles 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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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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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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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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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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Capote, Truman

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

Frost, Robert

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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

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Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

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

Moore, Thomas

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Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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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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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