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

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.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Frost, Robert

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

Goldman, Emma

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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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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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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 incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

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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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In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

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Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.

Pope, Alexander

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Keats, John

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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 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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Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Irving, Washington

43.

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