Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

- Louis XIV

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Voltaire

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

10.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

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

Mellor, David

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

Welles, Orson

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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

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We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice -- however much we might desire it.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Puzo, Mario

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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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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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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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

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Stirner, Max

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

Becker, Ward

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Frost, Robert

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Proverb

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