Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Johnson, Samuel

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

Jones, Franklin P.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

13.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

15.

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

Proverb

16.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

17.

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

Welles, Orson

18.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

19.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

21.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

22.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

23.

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

24.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

25.

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

26.

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

Jones, Sir William

27.

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

Voltaire

28.

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

Becker, Ward

29.

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

30.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb, Spanish

33.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Mencken, H. L.

37.

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

38.

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

39.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

40.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

41.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Halifax, Edward F.

42.

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

43.

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

44.

Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

Dickens, Charles

45.

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

Younger, Evelle

46.

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

47.

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

Diderot, Denis

48.

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

49.

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

50.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida