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 decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

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

Pope, Alexander

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

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

10.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

11.

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

13.

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

14.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

15.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Voltaire

17.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

18.

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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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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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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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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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 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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

25.

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

Epitaph

26.

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.

27.

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

Welles, Orson

30.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

31.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

32.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Frost, Robert

39.

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

Keats, John

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

Puzo, Mario

41.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Pomerantz, Hart

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The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Stirner, Max