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

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

Epitaph

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

11.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

12.

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

13.

The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Jones, Sir William

14.

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

Owen, Robert

15.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

16.

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

17.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

18.

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

Puzo, Mario

19.

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

20.

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

Proverb

21.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

22.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

23.

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Chandler, Raymond

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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

25.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

31.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

32.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

33.

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

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

Arendt, Hannah

36.

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

Young, Brigham

37.

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

38.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

39.

I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

Voltaire

40.

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

Pope, Alexander

41.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

42.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

47.

Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

48.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

49.

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