Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

- More, Thomas

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Pomerantz, Hart

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

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

10.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

11.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

12.

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

13.

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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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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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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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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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

19.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

28.

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

29.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

30.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

31.

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

Proverb

32.

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

Shakespeare, William

33.

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

Voltaire

34.

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

Stirner, Max

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

37.

Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

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Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

Anacharsis

39.

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

Moore, 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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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

42.

Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Talmud, The

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I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Young, Brigham

44.

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law.

Sutrakritanga

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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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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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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