Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Trapp, June L.

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

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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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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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Puzo, Mario

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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Irving, Washington

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

Frost, Robert

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Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

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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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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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The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

Goldman, Emma

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.