Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

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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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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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.

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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 was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Puzo, Mario

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

21.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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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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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A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Becker, Ward

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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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

Maxwell, James Clerk

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Stirner, Max

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Mencken, H. L.