Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Young, Brigham

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

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Owen, Robert

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

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

Mcilvanney, William

14.

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

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

18.

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

19.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

20.

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

21.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

22.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Stirner, Max

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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

Sade, Marquis De

28.

I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

Voltaire

29.

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 of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

Goldman, Emma

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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

35.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Froude, James A.

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

Welles, Orson

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We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice -- however much we might desire it.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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