Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Rulers were made to be broken.

- Isenberg, Michael

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Halifax, Edward F.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Nizer, Louis

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Irving, Washington

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

Keats, John

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

Stirner, Max

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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

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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 only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

Maxwell, James Clerk

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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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

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Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Frost, Robert

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

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

Epitaph

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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