Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Welles, Orson

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Halifax, Edward F.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Frost, Robert

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

Younger, Evelle

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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 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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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

19.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

20.

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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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Stirner, Max

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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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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Cervantes, Miguel De

25.

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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

27.

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

Mcilvanney, William

28.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

29.

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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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 good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Engels, Friedrich

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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

36.

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

Nizer, Louis

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

39.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Proverb

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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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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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