Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Lafollette, Suzanne

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mellor, David

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

Shakespeare, 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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Froude, James A.

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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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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Mencken, H. L.

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Puzo, Mario

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

Welles, Orson

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

Gladstone, William E.

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Stirner, Max

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas 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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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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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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The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De