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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.
Law and lawyers Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

1.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
Mizner, Addison

2.
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
Diderot, Denis

3.
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.

4.
It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

5.
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

6.
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

7.
Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.
Thoreau, Henry David

8.
Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.
Jones, Franklin P.

9.
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.

10.
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

11.
It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.
Lieberman, Gerald F.

12.
The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
La Bruyere, Jean De

13.
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
Montesquieu, Charles De

14.
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Burke, Edmund

15.
The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
Crisp, Quentin

16.
In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

17.
Petty laws breed great crimes.
Ouida

18.
The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.
Stirner, Max

19.
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

20.
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.

21.
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

22.
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

23.
A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.
Mencken, H. L.

24.
I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
Moore, Thomas

25.
The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.
Proverb

26.
The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]
Shakespeare, William

27.
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

28.
Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.
Azarias

29.
Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.
Lafollette, Suzanne

30.
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them
Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

31.
Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.
Froude, James A.

32.
Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.
Louis XIV

33.
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
Irving, Washington

34.
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.
Thoreau, Henry David

35.
A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.
Proverb, French

36.
Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.
Mcilvanney, William

37.
I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.
Voltaire

38.
I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.
Young, Brigham

39.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Engels, Friedrich

40.
Law, without force, is impotent.
Pascal, Blaise

41.
It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.
Mille, Cecil B. De

42.
The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.
Trapp, June L.

43.
The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.
Maxwell, James Clerk

44.
Rulers were made to be broken.
Isenberg, Michael

45.
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
Puzo, Mario

46.
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
Kennedy, Robert F.

47.
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
La Bruyere, Jean De

48.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
Goldsmith, Oliver

49.
Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Franklin, Benjamin

50.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady


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