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 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 due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

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

Proverb

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

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

Owen, Robert

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.

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

13.

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

Moore, Thomas

14.

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

Epitaph

15.

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

Stirner, Max

16.

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

17.

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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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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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

20.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

21.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

22.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

24.

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

Wilson, Earl

25.

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

Welles, Orson

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Proverb, Spanish

30.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

31.

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

Mellor, David

32.

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

Jones, Sir William

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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Young, Brigham

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

Talmud, The

43.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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