Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Becker, Ward

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

12.

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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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

14.

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

15.

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 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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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

18.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

19.

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

Mcilvanney, William

20.

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

21.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

22.

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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

24.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

Keats, John

26.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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

Engels, Friedrich

28.

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

Wilson, Earl

29.

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law.

Sutrakritanga

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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

32.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

34.

Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

35.

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

Frost, Robert

36.

I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

Voltaire

37.

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

38.

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

39.

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

Mellor, David

40.

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

Owen, Robert

41.

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

Young, Brigham

42.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

48.

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

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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

50.

Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Capote, Truman