Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Epitaph

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

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

Moore, Thomas

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Froude, James A.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

10.

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

Welles, Orson

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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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

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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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

Young, Brigham

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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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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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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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 law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Johnson, Samuel

39.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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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 are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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