Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Becker, Ward

Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

Mellor, David

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

Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Voltaire

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.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

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

Proverb

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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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

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The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Frost, Robert

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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

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This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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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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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

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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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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

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

Young, Brigham

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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

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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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

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

Younger, Evelle

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proverb

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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