Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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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 law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Stirner, Max

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Talmud, The

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Froude, James A.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Jones, Sir William

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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

Gladstone, William E.

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Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Bacon, Francis

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Proverb