Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

- Saurin, Bernard Joseph

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

Welles, Orson

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

11.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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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

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Mellor, David

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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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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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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 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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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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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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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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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.

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

Keats, John

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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

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

Frost, Robert

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb

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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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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 trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.