Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Wilson, Earl

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Trapp, June L.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Macklin, Charles

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

10.

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

11.

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 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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

14.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

15.

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

Pope, Alexander

16.

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

Welles, Orson

18.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

22.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

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 jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Lincoln, Abraham

27.

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

28.

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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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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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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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

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

Stirner, Max

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

Becker, Ward

35.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

38.

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

Proverb

39.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

40.

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 judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

43.

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

Keats, John

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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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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

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The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

47.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.