Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Puzo, Mario

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

Maxwell, James Clerk

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

Talmud, The

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Proverb, Spanish

10.

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

11.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

12.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Johnson, Samuel

13.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

14.

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

Engels, Friedrich

15.

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

16.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

18.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

22.

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 law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

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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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A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Mencken, H. L.

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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 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

28.

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

Jones, Sir William

29.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Frost, Robert

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

Becker, Ward

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God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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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

40.

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

Pope, Alexander

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

44.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

47.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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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

49.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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Law, without force, is impotent.