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

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Nizer, Louis

Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

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

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Macklin, Charles

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Jones, Sir William

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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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 law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Epitaph

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

Young, Brigham

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Macleish, Archibald

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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