Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Butler, Samuel

Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

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

Younger, Evelle

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Irving, Washington

10.

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

Pope, Alexander

11.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

12.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

13.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

14.

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

Stirner, Max

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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

19.

A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

20.

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

22.

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

Young, Brigham

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

Becker, Ward

24.

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

Mellor, David

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

28.

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

Epitaph

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

Engels, Friedrich

31.

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

Gladstone, William E.

32.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

33.

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

Frost, Robert

34.

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

35.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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 law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

38.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

40.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

41.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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

43.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Moore, Thomas

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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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Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Lafollette, Suzanne

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Puzo, Mario