Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Welles, Orson

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.

Stirner, Max

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Voltaire

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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Mellor, David

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.

Ostman, Virginia

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

Moore, Thomas

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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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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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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Engels, Friedrich

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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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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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Young, Brigham