Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Frost, Robert

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

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

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

10.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

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

Young, Brigham

12.

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Mcilvanney, William

14.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

15.

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

17.

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

18.

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

Irving, Washington

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

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

21.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

22.

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

23.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

24.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

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

26.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

27.

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

28.

A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Butler, Samuel

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

Jefferson, Thomas

30.

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

Mellor, David

31.

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

Froude, James A.

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

Epitaph

33.

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

Voltaire

34.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

35.

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

Engels, Friedrich

36.

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

Gladstone, William E.

37.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Keats, John

40.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

42.

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

43.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

44.

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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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

46.

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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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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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

49.

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

50.

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