Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

- Saying

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

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.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Mencken, H. L.

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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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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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

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

20.

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

21.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

22.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Froude, James A.

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.

Stirner, Max

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

39.

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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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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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David