Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Johnson, Samuel

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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

Mellor, David

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

12.

As soon as you begin to say We have always done things this way -- perhaps that might be a better way, conscious law-making is beginning. As soon as you begin to say We do things this way -- they do things that way -- what is to be done about it? men are beginning to feel towards justice, that resides between the endless jar of right and wrong.

Cam, Helen M.

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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

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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

16.

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

Talmud, The

17.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

18.

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice -- however much we might desire it.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Wilson, Earl

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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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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 trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Jones, Sir William

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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

La Bruyere, Jean De

27.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Pope, Alexander

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It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Proverb

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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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

44.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Becker, Ward

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

Young, Brigham

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

Franklin, Benjamin