Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Shakespeare, William

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Irving, Washington

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Talmud, The

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

10.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

11.

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

12.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

13.

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

Jones, Sir William

14.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

La Bruyere, Jean De

15.

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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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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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

18.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

19.

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

20.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

21.

Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

22.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Becker, Ward

24.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

25.

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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Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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

28.

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

Proverb

29.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

30.

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

31.

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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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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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

34.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Epitaph

36.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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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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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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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 law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

42.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

Welles, Orson

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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

Voltaire

48.

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

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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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