Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Young, Brigham

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Frost, Robert

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Talmud, The

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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 good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Becker, Ward

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Moore, Thomas

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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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.