Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Epitaph

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Welles, Orson

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

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

Pope, Alexander

10.

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

Nizer, Louis

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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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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

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

18.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

20.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

21.

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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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

24.

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

Diderot, Denis

25.

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

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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

27.

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

Moore, Thomas

28.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

29.

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

30.

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

Wilson, Earl

32.

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

Irving, Washington

36.

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

Keats, John

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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

38.

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

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

Proverb, Spanish

40.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

43.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

46.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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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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Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

Jefferson, Thomas