Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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.

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

Trapp, June L.

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

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Stirner, Max

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

11.

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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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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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Johnson, Samuel

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Engels, Friedrich

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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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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

30.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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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

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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Moore, Thomas

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.

Havel, Vaclav

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Proverb

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Thoreau, Henry David

46.

Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Wilson, Earl

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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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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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I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Young, Brigham

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo