Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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.

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

Mencken, H. L.

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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As soon as you begin to say We have always done things this way -- perhaps that might be a better way, conscious law-making is beginning. As soon as you begin to say We do things this way -- they do things that way -- what is to be done about it? men are beginning to feel towards justice, that resides between the endless jar of right and wrong.

Cam, Helen M.

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Welles, Orson

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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

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Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Capote, Truman

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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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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

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

Frost, Robert

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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Moore, Thomas

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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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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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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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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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Mellor, David

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Johnson, Samuel

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