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 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.

The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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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

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Proverb

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Puzo, Mario

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The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Stirner, Max

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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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.