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 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

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Becker, Ward

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

10.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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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

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

Keats, John

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

Moore, Thomas

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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mellor, David

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

Young, Brigham

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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 law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Brecht, Bertolt

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Engels, Friedrich

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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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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

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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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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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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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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I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Proverb

40.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

41.

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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