Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Grant, Ulysses S.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Trapp, June L.

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

Epitaph

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb

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

Pope, Alexander

10.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

11.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

12.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

13.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Mellor, David

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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 more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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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 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

32.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

33.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

34.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Engels, Friedrich

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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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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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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

43.

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

Voltaire

44.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

45.

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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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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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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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

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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 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