Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Frost, Robert

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Epitaph

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Young, Brigham

The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.

Havel, Vaclav

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mellor, David

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

11.

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

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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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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

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Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb

30.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.