Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

- Louis XIV

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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.

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.

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

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

10.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

11.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

12.

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

13.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

14.

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

Epitaph

15.

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

Engels, Friedrich

16.

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

Talmud, The

17.

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

18.

Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

19.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

20.

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

21.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

22.

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

Wilson, Earl

23.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

24.

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

25.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

26.

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law.

Sutrakritanga

27.

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

28.

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

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

Irving, Washington

30.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principles of fear or reason, but from passion.

Montesquieu, Charles De

31.

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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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

34.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

35.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

36.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

38.

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

Younger, Evelle

39.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

40.

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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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

42.

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

43.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

44.

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

45.

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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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

47.

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

Shakespeare, William

48.

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

Pomerantz, Hart

49.

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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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