Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Welles, Orson

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Trapp, June L.

Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Capote, Truman

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Proverb

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

Owen, Robert

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Proverb

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Irving, Washington

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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

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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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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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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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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

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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

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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 is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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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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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