Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

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

Talmud, The

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Moore, Thomas

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

Owen, Robert

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Voltaire

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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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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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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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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

Keats, John

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

Stirner, Max

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

Younger, Evelle

27.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Welles, Orson

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

Goldman, Emma

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

Maxwell, James Clerk

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De