Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Owen, Robert

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Jones, Sir William

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

10.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Swift, Jonathan

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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 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

16.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

17.

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

18.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

21.

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

Frost, Robert

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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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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

24.

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

31.

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

Proverb

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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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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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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Wilson, Earl

40.

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

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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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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

Keats, John

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Talmud, The