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

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

Frost, Robert

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.

Becker, Ward

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Puzo, Mario

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

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Engels, Friedrich

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

12.

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

Proverb, Spanish

14.

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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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

18.

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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

21.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

25.

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

Moore, Thomas

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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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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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Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

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

33.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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.

39.

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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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

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Pope, Alexander

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas 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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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Gladstone, William E.

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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