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

Johnson, Samuel

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

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

Puzo, Mario

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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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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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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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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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It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Proverb

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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