Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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

Stirner, Max

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

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

Mellor, David

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Moore, Thomas

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Wilson, Earl

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Eliot, George

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

Voltaire

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

Gladstone, William E.

37.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles 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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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

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

Goldman, Emma

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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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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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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The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.