Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.

Ostman, Virginia

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Chandler, Raymond

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Wilson, Earl

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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Proverb

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

Sade, Marquis De

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Engels, Friedrich

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Keats, John

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

Moore, Thomas

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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 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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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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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 is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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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

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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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De