Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Bacon, Francis

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

10.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Becker, Ward

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

Jones, Sir William

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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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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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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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.

Pope, Alexander

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

Puzo, Mario

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Proverb

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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Moore, Thomas

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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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

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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 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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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