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

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

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

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Wilson, Earl

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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Shakespeare, William

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Frost, Robert

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Becker, Ward

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

Proverb

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 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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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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