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 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

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

Epitaph

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Mencken, H. L.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Proverb

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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

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

Owen, Robert

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Proverb

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

Becker, Ward

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

20.

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Welles, Orson

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

Pope, Alexander

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A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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

32.

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Keats, John

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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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.