Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Wilson, Earl

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Stirner, Max

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

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

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

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.

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

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Johnson, Samuel

10.

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

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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Shakespeare, William

15.

It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Moore, Thomas

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

21.

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

22.

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

Gladstone, William E.

23.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

24.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

25.

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

26.

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Chandler, Raymond

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

28.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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.

30.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

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

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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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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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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Epitaph

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

41.

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

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.

Pope, Alexander

44.

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Talmud, The

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Eliot, George

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

Gandhi, Mahatma