Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

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

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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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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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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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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A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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

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

Froude, James A.

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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Puzo, Mario

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Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

Mellor, David

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Becker, Ward

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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 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

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

Irving, Washington

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principles of fear or reason, but from passion.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.