Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

King Jr. Martin Luther

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Welles, Orson

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

Jones, Sir William

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Stirner, Max

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

Puzo, Mario

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

17.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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 judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Engels, Friedrich

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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

30.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

31.

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

Wilson, Earl

32.

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

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Moore, Thomas

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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.

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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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 and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.