Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

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.

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Swift, Jonathan

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

10.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

11.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.

Proverb, Spanish

13.

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

Voltaire

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Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.

Havel, Vaclav

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Keats, John

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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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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Becker, Ward

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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.

Proverb

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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Mellor, David

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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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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Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Talmud, The

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Shakespeare, William

43.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

45.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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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

47.

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 successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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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