Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Mellor, David

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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Young, Brigham

10.

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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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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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

18.

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Becker, Ward

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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

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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

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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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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

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Jones, Sir William

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, 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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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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Engels, Friedrich

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

47.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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