Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Epitaph

Asoka

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Stirner, Max

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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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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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Irving, Washington

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Froude, James A.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Macleish, Archibald

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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Welles, Orson

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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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

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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