Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

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

Epitaph

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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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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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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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

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

Becker, 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

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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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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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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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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Keats, John

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Proverb

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Mellor, David

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

Stirner, Max

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

30.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

33.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Talmud, The

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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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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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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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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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Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

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

Welles, Orson

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