Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Proverb

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

Voltaire

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

Owen, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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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 jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Becker, Ward

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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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

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

Pope, Alexander

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Mellor, David

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

Welles, Orson

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Puzo, Mario

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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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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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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.