Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Wilson, Earl

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

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.

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

Mellor, David

10.

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

11.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Brecht, Bertolt

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

16.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

17.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

19.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

20.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

22.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

23.

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

Mill, John Stuart

24.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

25.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

26.

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

27.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

28.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Froude, James A.

33.

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

Mencken, H. L.

34.

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.

35.

Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

36.

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.

37.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

38.

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

Diderot, Denis

39.

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

40.

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

Owen, Robert

41.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

42.

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

Talmud, The

43.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

44.

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.

45.

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Young, Brigham

46.

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

47.

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

48.

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

Mcilvanney, William

49.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

50.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

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