Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Engels, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Talmud, The

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Owen, Robert

10.

The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

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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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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

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A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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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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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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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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No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

Arendt, Hannah

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Frost, Robert

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

30.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Mill, John Stuart

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

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

Gladstone, William E.

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.