Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

- Burke, Edmund

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Becker, Ward

Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.

Bismarck, Otto Von

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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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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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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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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

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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Johnson, Samuel

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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Stirner, Max

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Moore, Thomas

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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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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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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