Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

Young, Brigham

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Proverb

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

La Bruyere, Jean 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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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Puzo, Mario

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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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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

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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 judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Epitaph

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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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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 often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Johnson, Samuel