Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

- Froude, James A.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

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

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

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

Talmud, The

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

Puzo, Mario

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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.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Voltaire

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Epitaph

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles 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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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Frost, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Becker, Ward

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David