Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.

Becker, Ward

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

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

Talmud, The

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Stirner, Max

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

10.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

11.

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.

12.

Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

13.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

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

Wilson, Earl

15.

Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Engels, Friedrich

17.

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

21.

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

22.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

24.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

25.

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

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

28.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

32.

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

33.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

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

35.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

36.

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

37.

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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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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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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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

41.

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

42.

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

Froude, James A.

43.

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

Proverb

44.

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

45.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

46.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

47.

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

48.

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

Mcilvanney, William