Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Jones, Franklin P.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

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

Stirner, Max

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

Young, Brigham

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Engels, Friedrich

10.

Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.

Proverb

11.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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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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 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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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Mellor, David

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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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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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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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Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Lafollette, Suzanne

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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Voltaire

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

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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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Keats, John

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

Wilson, Earl

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