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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Jones, Sir William

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Stirner, Max

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Puzo, Mario

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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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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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Wilson, Earl

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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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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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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Keats, John

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

Moore, Thomas

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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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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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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 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

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

Proverb

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