Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

- Saying

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

Lippmann, Walter

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

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

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Becker, Ward

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Young, Brigham

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

Proverb

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

Puzo, Mario

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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.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Keats, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Engels, Friedrich

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

Jones, Sir William

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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