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

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Froude, James A.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Owen, Robert

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

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

10.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Roosevelt, Theodore

11.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Moore, Thomas

14.

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

Frost, Robert

15.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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 trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Stirner, Max

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

Welles, Orson

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

24.

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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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

26.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

27.

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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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 simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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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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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mellor, David

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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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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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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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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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

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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.