Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.

Bismarck, Otto Von

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

10.

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

11.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

13.

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

15.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

18.

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

19.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

21.

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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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

23.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice -- however much we might desire it.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Welles, Orson

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

30.

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

31.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

32.

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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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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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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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

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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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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 law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

39.

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

Stirner, Max

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

Pope, Alexander

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Jones, Franklin P.

47.

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

Irving, Washington

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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison