Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Proverb, Spanish

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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.

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

Proverb

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

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

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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 good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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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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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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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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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 eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Epitaph

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Mellor, David

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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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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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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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 is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Voltaire