Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Pomerantz, Hart

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Jones, Franklin P.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Keats, John

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Irving, Washington

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Mcilvanney, William

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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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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Stirner, Max

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Froude, James A.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Young, Brigham

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A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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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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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

Maxwell, James Clerk

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.