Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

- Saying

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Irving, Washington

I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

Voltaire

Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Thoreau, Henry David

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Proverb

10.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

11.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

12.

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

Jones, Franklin P.

13.

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

14.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

15.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

16.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

17.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

18.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

20.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb, Spanish

24.

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

25.

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

Wilson, Earl

26.

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

Frost, Robert

27.

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

28.

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

29.

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

Diderot, Denis

31.

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Epitaph

35.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

36.

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

37.

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

38.

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

Mcilvanney, William

39.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

40.

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

Becker, Ward

41.

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

42.

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

Jones, Sir William

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Keats, John

46.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

47.

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

48.

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

Owen, Robert

49.

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.

50.

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