Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Nizer, Louis

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Owen, Robert

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

Engels, Friedrich

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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.

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

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Puzo, Mario

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Proverb

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Stirner, Max

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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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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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

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

Moore, Thomas

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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

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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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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Mellor, David

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

Proverb

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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.