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

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

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

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

Tocqueville, Alexis 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

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

10.

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

15.

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Johnson, Samuel

17.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

18.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

24.

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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

27.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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

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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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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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The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

32.

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

Younger, Evelle

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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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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

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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.

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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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

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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

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

Epitaph

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Talmud, The

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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

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

Welles, Orson