Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Younger, Evelle

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Sade, Marquis De

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

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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

Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.

Becker, Ward

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

10.

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

11.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

12.

The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

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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

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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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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

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

20.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

21.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

22.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

23.

Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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

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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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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

30.

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

Engels, Friedrich

32.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

33.

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

Mcilvanney, William

34.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

35.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

38.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Gladstone, William E.

41.

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

Wilson, Earl

42.

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

43.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

Welles, Orson

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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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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 more corrupt the state, the more laws.