Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

- Chandler, Raymond

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Coolidge, Calvin

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

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.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Engels, Friedrich

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Proverb

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.

Pope, Alexander

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Becker, Ward

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Irving, Washington

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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

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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Gladstone, William E.

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An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

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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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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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The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Jones, Sir William

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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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Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

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

Wilson, Earl

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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