Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Irving, Washington

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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 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

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Pomerantz, Hart

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Trapp, June L.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Gladstone, William E.

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Frost, Robert

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

32.

Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Talmud, The

33.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

34.

The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Jones, Sir William

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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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Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Capote, Truman

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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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No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

Arendt, Hannah

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Welles, Orson

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

Becker, Ward

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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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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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The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

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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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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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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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