Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Talmud, The

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

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Frost, Robert

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Keats, John

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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

34.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Engels, Friedrich

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Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.

Bismarck, Otto Von

39.

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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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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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Wilson, Earl

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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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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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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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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