Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

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

Becker, Ward

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

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

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

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 good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

11.

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

12.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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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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

19.

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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

21.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Frost, Robert

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

Trapp, June L.

28.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 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 law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Keats, John

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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 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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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