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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

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We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice -- however much we might desire it.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Stirner, Max

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Proverb

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Welles, Orson

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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 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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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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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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

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

Pope, Alexander

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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

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

Becker, Ward

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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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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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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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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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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 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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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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