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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Becker, Ward

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

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

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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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.

11.

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

Talmud, The

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

Gladstone, William E.

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Stirner, Max

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Mellor, David

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

42.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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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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In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

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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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I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Young, Brigham

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Wilson, Earl