Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Gladstone, William E.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Macklin, Charles

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

Young, Brigham

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

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Swift, Jonathan

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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.

A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Butler, Samuel

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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 severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

22.

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

28.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

29.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

36.

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Irving, Washington

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Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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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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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 law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.