Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Trapp, June L.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

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

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

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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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It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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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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

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I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Young, Brigham

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Becker, Ward

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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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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Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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 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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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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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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Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

Mellor, David

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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell