Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Young, Brigham

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

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

Proverb

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

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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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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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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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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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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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, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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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 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 severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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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 successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.