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

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

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

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Capote, Truman

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

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 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

11.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

13.

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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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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I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Young, Brigham

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Proverb

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The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

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

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

Voltaire

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

27.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

31.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

32.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

35.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Stirner, Max

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Mellor, David

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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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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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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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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The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

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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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

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The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Pope, Alexander