Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Moore, Thomas

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Moore, Thomas

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one -- the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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 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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Voltaire

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

25.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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

Pomerantz, Hart

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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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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

33.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

34.

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

Proverb

35.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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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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.

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

Irving, Washington

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

Frost, Robert

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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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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Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Engels, Friedrich

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Johnson, Samuel