Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

- Engels, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

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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Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

11.

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

12.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one -- the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

Anacharsis

19.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

22.

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

Stirner, Max

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

24.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Puzo, Mario

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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

Keats, John

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

27.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

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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.

29.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

30.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

32.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

33.

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

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

Proverb

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

36.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

37.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Gladstone, William E.

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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

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

44.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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 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

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Franklin, Benjamin