Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The law is reason, free from passion.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jones, Sir William

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Mellor, David

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Proverb

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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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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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

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

Becker, Ward

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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

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Frost, Robert

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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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