Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

- Azarias

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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.

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

Jones, Sir William

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

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

Irving, Washington

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Lincoln, Abraham

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Young, Brigham

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

Engels, Friedrich

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Mellor, David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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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.

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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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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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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 law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Becker, Ward

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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Puzo, Mario

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Moore, Thomas