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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Owen, Robert

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

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

Trapp, June L.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Macklin, Charles

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Frost, Robert

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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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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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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 law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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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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Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

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A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Mencken, H. L.

32.

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

Epitaph

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin