Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Macleish, Archibald

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Trapp, June L.

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

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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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

14.

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

Engels, Friedrich

15.

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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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

17.

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

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

20.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

21.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

23.

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

Epitaph

25.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

26.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

Frost, Robert

32.

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

Mcilvanney, William

33.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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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

35.

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

Proverb

36.

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

37.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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As soon as you begin to say We have always done things this way -- perhaps that might be a better way, conscious law-making is beginning. As soon as you begin to say We do things this way -- they do things that way -- what is to be done about it? men are beginning to feel towards justice, that resides between the endless jar of right and wrong.

Cam, Helen M.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Froude, James A.

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.