Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.

Becker, Ward

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

Epitaph

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

Keats, John

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

10.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principles of fear or reason, but from passion.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Voltaire

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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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Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Engels, Friedrich

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Wilson, Earl

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

Stirner, Max

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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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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 good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

Sade, Marquis De

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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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 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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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