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

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

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

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

11.

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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Voltaire

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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Pope, Alexander

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

20.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Spanish

22.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Becker, Ward

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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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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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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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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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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

39.

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

Epitaph

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wilson, Earl

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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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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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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.

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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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