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

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

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

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

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Young, Brigham

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

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

11.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

12.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

13.

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

Stirner, Max

14.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

18.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

19.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

20.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Gladstone, William E.

21.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

22.

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

Younger, Evelle

23.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

24.

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.

25.

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

26.

Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

27.

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De

28.

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

Irving, Washington

29.

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

Proverb

30.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

35.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

36.

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

Engels, Friedrich

37.

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

38.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

39.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

40.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

41.

Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

42.

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

Epitaph

43.

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

44.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

46.

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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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

49.

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

Proverb

50.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De