Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Gladstone, William E.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

King Jr. Martin Luther

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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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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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 first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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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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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proverb

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Mellor, David

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

Irving, Washington

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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

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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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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Capote, Truman

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

Talmud, The

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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

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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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