Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

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

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Jones, Sir William

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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

11.

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

Voltaire

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Becker, Ward

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

Mellor, David

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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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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

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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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

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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.

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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 trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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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