Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Younger, Evelle

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

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

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

10.

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

11.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

15.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

16.

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

17.

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

Welles, Orson

18.

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

Keats, John

19.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

20.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

21.

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

Stirner, Max

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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

23.

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

24.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Jones, Sir William

29.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

30.

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

31.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

32.

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

Younger, Evelle

33.

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

34.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Young, Brigham

36.

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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.

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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

44.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

45.

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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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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

48.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

49.

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

Froude, James A.

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