Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

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

Proverb

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.

Proverb, Spanish

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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

11.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Stirner, Max

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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.

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

Welles, Orson

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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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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 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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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Keats, John

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Epitaph

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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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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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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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

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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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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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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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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Beecher, Henry Ward