Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Pomerantz, Hart

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

Pope, Alexander

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

10.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

11.

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

12.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

13.

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

14.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

15.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

16.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

17.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

18.

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

Gladstone, William E.

19.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

20.

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

Epitaph

21.

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Montesquieu, Charles De

22.

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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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

24.

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

25.

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

Voltaire

26.

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

Froude, James A.

27.

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

Welles, Orson

28.

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

Moore, Thomas

29.

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

30.

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

Keats, John

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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

32.

Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

Dickens, Charles

33.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

34.

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

Puzo, Mario

35.

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

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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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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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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 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

40.

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

Proverb

41.

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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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