Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.

Stirner, Max

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Young, Brigham

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

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

Froude, James A.

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

Nizer, Louis

10.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

11.

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

Proverb

12.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

13.

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

Owen, Robert

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

16.

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

Jones, Sir William

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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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The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

Maxwell, James Clerk

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

Puzo, Mario

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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Macklin, Charles

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

Voltaire

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

28.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

29.

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

Wilson, Earl

30.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Frost, Robert

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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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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 severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Keats, John

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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Welles, Orson