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

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

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

Voltaire

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

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

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Younger, Evelle

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

Proverb

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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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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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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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 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

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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

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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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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 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

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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.

Pope, Alexander

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Mencken, H. L.

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.

Proverb, Spanish

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