Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Frost, Robert

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

10.

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

Epitaph

11.

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

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

17.

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 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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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 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

21.

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

22.

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Pope, Alexander

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As soon as you begin to say We have always done things this way -- perhaps that might be a better way, conscious law-making is beginning. As soon as you begin to say We do things this way -- they do things that way -- what is to be done about it? men are beginning to feel towards justice, that resides between the endless jar of right and wrong.

Cam, Helen M.

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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 good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

29.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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 best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

34.

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

Voltaire

35.

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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

37.

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

42.

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

Talmud, The

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The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

48.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.