Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Becker, Ward

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

Talmud, The

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

15.

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

17.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

Mellor, David

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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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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Macklin, Charles

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Wilson, Earl

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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

30.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

31.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

33.

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

Voltaire

34.

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

Stirner, Max

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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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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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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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

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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

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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Epitaph

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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.