Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

- Saurin, Bernard Joseph

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Pomerantz, Hart

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

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Wilson, Earl

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

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Proverb, Spanish

10.

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

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Young, Brigham

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Jones, Sir William

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

25.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Trapp, June L.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Froude, James A.

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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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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

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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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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Keats, John

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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.