Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Epitaph

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Halifax, Edward F.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

12.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 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

15.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

16.

Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

18.

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

19.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

23.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

24.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

25.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

26.

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

27.

Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

28.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

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

30.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

33.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Brecht, Bertolt

34.

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

Gladstone, William E.

35.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

36.

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

Mencken, H. L.

37.

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

Stirner, Max

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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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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

40.

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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No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

Arendt, Hannah

42.

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

Younger, Evelle

43.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

44.

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.

45.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

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

Voltaire

47.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

49.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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