Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

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

Welles, Orson

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Jones, Sir William

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

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

11.

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

12.

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 severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

14.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

16.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Stirner, Max

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Keats, John

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Mellor, David

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

31.

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

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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

35.

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

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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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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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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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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.

40.

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

41.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund