Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

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

Owen, Robert

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

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

Goldman, Emma

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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 jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Frost, Robert

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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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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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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.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Froude, James A.

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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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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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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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Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Proverb

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We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice -- however much we might desire it.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Proverb

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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Stirner, Max

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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