Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Tocqueville, Alexis De

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Puzo, Mario

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

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

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

Irving, Washington

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

10.

The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

11.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Johnson, Samuel

16.

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

Mcilvanney, William

17.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

19.

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

20.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

21.

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De

22.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

23.

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

Epitaph

24.

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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In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one -- the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

28.

I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

Voltaire

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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

30.

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

Keats, John

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

32.

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

Mellor, David

33.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

34.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Welles, Orson

37.

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

Talmud, The

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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

40.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

42.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings.

Asoka

45.

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

46.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Proverb