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

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Spanish

Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

Mellor, David

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

Pomerantz, Hart

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

Proverb

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

Epitaph

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

Becker, Ward

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

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

Stirner, Max

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Burke, Edmund

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

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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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I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings.

Asoka

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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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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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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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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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

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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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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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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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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

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

Young, Brigham

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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