Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Hughes, Charles Evans

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Becker, Ward

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

Epitaph

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

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Mellor, David

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

10.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principles of fear or reason, but from passion.

Montesquieu, Charles De

11.

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

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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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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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.

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

17.

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

Keats, John

18.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

19.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

20.

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

Welles, Orson

21.

Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

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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

23.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

24.

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

25.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

26.

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

Johnson, Samuel

27.

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

28.

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

29.

Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Bacon, Francis

30.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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.

32.

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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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.

34.

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

35.

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

Frost, Robert

36.

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

37.

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

Owen, Robert

38.

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

Moore, Thomas

39.

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

40.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

41.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

Goldman, Emma

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.

Proverb, Spanish

44.

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

45.

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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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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Gladstone, William E.

50.

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