Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Puzo, Mario

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Talmud, The

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.

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

Wilson, Earl

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

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Burke, Edmund

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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

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Keats, John

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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

21.

This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Puzo, Mario

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We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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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

28.

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

29.

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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Capote, Truman

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Frost, Robert

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

Gladstone, William E.

37.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Eliot, George

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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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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The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Jones, Sir William

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

Proverb

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

Pomerantz, Hart

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.