Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Irving, Washington

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Stirner, Max

13.

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Bacon, Francis

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

Frost, Robert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law.

Sutrakritanga

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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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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.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Talmud, The

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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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

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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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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

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

Moore, Thomas

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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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