Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Jones, Sir William

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Puzo, Mario

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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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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The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.

Havel, Vaclav

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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 law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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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 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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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Moore, Thomas

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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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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

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

Proverb

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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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 not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Mellor, David

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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 good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Engels, Friedrich

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