Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.

Stirner, Max

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.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Keats, John

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

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

Mellor, David

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

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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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

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Wilson, Earl

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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 judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Young, Brigham

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Welles, Orson

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God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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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 good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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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.

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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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Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson