Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Mcilvanney, William

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Irving, Washington

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

Pomerantz, Hart

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Becker, Ward

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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

15.

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

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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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.

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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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

23.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

24.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

26.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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

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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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb, Spanish

35.

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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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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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No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

Arendt, Hannah

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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Puzo, Mario

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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.

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Frost, Robert