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

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

Stirner, Max

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

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

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

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Johnson, Samuel

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Irving, Washington

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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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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The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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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 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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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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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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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Talmud, The

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

Voltaire

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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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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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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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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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The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Macleish, Archibald

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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