Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jones, Sir William

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

10.

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

Welles, Orson

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Moore, Thomas

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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

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

Irving, Washington

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The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.

Stirner, Max

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

37.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Proverb

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Butler, Samuel