Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

- More, Thomas

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

Welles, Orson

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Frost, Robert

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

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

Younger, Evelle

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

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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 due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

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

Proverb

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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Spanish

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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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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Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

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

Becker, Ward

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Stirner, Max

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Pope, Alexander

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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

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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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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Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

Mellor, David