Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Hughes, Charles Evans

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Owen, Robert

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Proverb

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

12.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

14.

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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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

King Jr. Martin Luther

17.

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

Proverb

18.

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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

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

Mellor, David

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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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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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If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.

Ostman, Virginia

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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

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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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.

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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

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

Keats, John

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

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The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Wilson, Earl

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De