Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

- Kennedy, Robert F.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

Frost, Robert

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.

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

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Younger, Evelle

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

Proverb

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

10.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

11.

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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.

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

Voltaire

20.

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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Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

26.

This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

27.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

28.

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

29.

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law.

Sutrakritanga

30.

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

31.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

32.

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

33.

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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We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

35.

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

Keats, John

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Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Sade, Marquis De

39.

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

40.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

41.

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Becker, Ward

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

Shakespeare, William

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

48.

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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