Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Young, Brigham

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Proverb

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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mellor, David

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

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

Proverb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Epitaph

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Mencken, H. L.

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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 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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

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