Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Epitaph

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

Sade, Marquis De

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Stirner, Max

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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Talmud, The

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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

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

Pope, Alexander

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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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

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Mcilvanney, William

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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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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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Froude, James A.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Jones, Sir William

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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Burke, Edmund