Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

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

Keats, John

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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

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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 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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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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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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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Moore, Thomas

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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

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The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Puzo, Mario

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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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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 have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings.

Asoka

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Stirner, Max

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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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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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Proverb

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.