Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Mellor, David

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Pomerantz, Hart

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Spanish

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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Stirner, Max

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

Irving, Washington

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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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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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Keats, John

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Welles, Orson

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

Voltaire

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

Epitaph

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When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Eliot, George

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Moore, Thomas

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A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.