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

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

Owen, Robert

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

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

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

Younger, Evelle

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.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Voltaire

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

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The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Jones, Sir William

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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 good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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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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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Chandler, Raymond

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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

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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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Proverb

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Froude, James A.

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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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 severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Wilson, Earl

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Macklin, Charles

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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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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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