Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Rulers were made to be broken.

- Isenberg, Michael

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Nizer, Louis

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Stirner, Max

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Mcilvanney, William

10.

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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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 kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Keats, John

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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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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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 and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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 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 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

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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

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

Owen, Robert

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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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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Becker, Ward

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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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.

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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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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Pomerantz, Hart

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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady