Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Gladstone, William E.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

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

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

Epitaph

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

10.

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

Proverb

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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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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Johnson, Samuel

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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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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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

31.

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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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Keats, John

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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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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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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 good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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.

45.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Talmud, The

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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

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Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Lafollette, Suzanne

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All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law.

Sutrakritanga

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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De