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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Mencken, H. L.

Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.

Proverb

10.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Froude, James A.

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

Puzo, Mario

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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

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Jones, Sir William

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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

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

Welles, Orson

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Talmud, The

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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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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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Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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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

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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

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

40.

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

Proverb, Spanish

41.

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

Mellor, David

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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.

44.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Moore, Thomas

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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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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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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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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