Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

- Brougham, Lord Henry P.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Chandler, Raymond

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

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.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Mcilvanney, William

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Mencken, H. L.

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

Keats, John

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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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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Macklin, Charles

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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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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 enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Becker, Ward

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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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Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Welles, Orson

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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.