Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

- Lieberman, Gerald F.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

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

Owen, Robert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Mellor, David

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

Frost, Robert

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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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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We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Wilson, Earl

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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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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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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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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

La Bruyere, Jean 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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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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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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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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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 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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French