Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Tocqueville, Alexis De

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Moore, Thomas

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

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Irving, Washington

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

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

10.

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

Younger, Evelle

11.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

12.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

16.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Proverb

18.

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

Keats, John

19.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

20.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

21.

A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

Lippmann, Walter

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The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Stirner, Max

24.

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Becker, Ward

27.

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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

29.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Engels, Friedrich

30.

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

Talmud, The

31.

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

32.

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

Voltaire

33.

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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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

35.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

40.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

41.

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

42.

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

43.

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

Welles, Orson

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

Pope, Alexander

45.

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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Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.