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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
- Montesquieu, Charles De
Law and lawyers Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

1.
Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.
Proverb

2.
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.

3.
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
Irving, Washington

4.
A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.
Proverb, French

5.
Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.
Owen, Robert

6.
Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.
Tocqueville, Alexis De

7.
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

8.
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.

9.
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
Butler, Samuel

10.
The law is reason, free from passion.
Aristotle

11.
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
Puzo, Mario

12.
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

13.
We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.
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

15.
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Frost, Robert

16.
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Franklin, Benjamin

17.
Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.
Azarias

18.
Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.
Mellor, David

19.
Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.
Saying

20.
The trouble with law is lawyers.
Darrow, Clarence

21.
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.
Thoreau, Henry David

22.
Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.
Talmud, The

23.
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

24.
Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.
Froude, James A.

25.
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

26.
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
Halifax, Edward F.

27.
The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
Welles, Orson

28.
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

29.
The more corrupt the state, the more laws.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

30.
The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
La Bruyere, Jean De

31.
It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.
Jefferson, Thomas

32.
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
Kennedy, Robert F.

33.
Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
Capote, Truman

34.
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

35.
The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.
Proverb

36.
Rulers were made to be broken.
Isenberg, Michael

37.
The good of the people is the greatest law.
Cicero, Marcus T.

38.
Petty laws breed great crimes.
Ouida

39.
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

40.
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

41.
In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

42.
The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
Crisp, Quentin

43.
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
Colton, Charles Caleb

44.
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

45.
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

46.
The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.
Trapp, June L.

47.
An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.
Younger, Evelle

48.
I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.
Grant, Ulysses S.

49.
It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.
Lieberman, Gerald F.

50.
Law, without force, is impotent.
Pascal, Blaise


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