Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Gladstone, William E.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

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

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

Moore, Thomas

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

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

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

The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

Maxwell, James Clerk

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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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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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Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Wilson, Earl

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Voltaire

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Stirner, Max

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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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

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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

Anacharsis

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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 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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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

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De