Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Gladstone, William E.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Gladstone, William E.

The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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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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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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

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

Epitaph

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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

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

Owen, Robert

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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

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

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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 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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Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.

Proverb

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Becker, Ward

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

Talmud, The

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.