Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about 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.

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

Keats, John

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

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Engels, Friedrich

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Frost, Robert

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Mellor, David

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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Moore, Thomas

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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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We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

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

Proverb

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

Gladstone, William E.

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Chandler, Raymond

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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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

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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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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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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He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von