Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

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

Voltaire

10.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

11.

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Eliot, George

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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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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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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

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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 law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

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

Nizer, Louis

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Irving, Washington

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

Welles, Orson

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

Owen, Robert

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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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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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Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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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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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.