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

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

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

A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Moore, Thomas

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Keats, John

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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

11.

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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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

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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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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Epitaph

29.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

31.

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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

33.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

36.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

37.

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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The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle