Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Rulers were made to be broken.

- Isenberg, Michael

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Proverb, Spanish

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Duncan, Isadora

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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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

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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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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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

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Puzo, Mario

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Engels, Friedrich

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Moore, Thomas

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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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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Shakespeare, William

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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 -- a profession it is to disguise matters.