Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Brougham, Lord Henry P.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Frost, Robert

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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Moore, Thomas

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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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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When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Eliot, George

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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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.

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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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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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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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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Gladstone, William E.

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Voltaire

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Thoreau, Henry David