Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

- Younger, Evelle

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Froude, James A.

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

Welles, Orson

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

10.

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

11.

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

Keats, John

18.

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

19.

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

Johnson, Samuel

21.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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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

23.

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

Moore, Thomas

24.

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

Talmud, The

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

Mellor, David

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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

Goldman, Emma

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

Anacharsis

30.

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

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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 felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Lafollette, Suzanne

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

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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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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Frost, Robert

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

Pope, Alexander

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

46.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Sayers, Dorothy L.