Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Welles, Orson

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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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Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Johnson, Samuel

28.

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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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.

Ostman, Virginia

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

Pope, Alexander

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.