Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Froude, James A.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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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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 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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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

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

Becker, Ward

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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 more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Frost, Robert

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

Proverb

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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

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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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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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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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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Gladstone, William E.

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings.

Asoka

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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

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

Voltaire

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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