Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Shakespeare, William

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Puzo, Mario

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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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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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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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 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

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

Keats, John

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Becker, Ward

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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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

21.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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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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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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Johnson, Samuel

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

37.

The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

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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

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

40.

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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 simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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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.

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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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.

50.

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