Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

- Grant, Ulysses S.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

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

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb

15.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Moore, Thomas

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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 English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Irving, Washington

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

25.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Young, Brigham

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Burke, Edmund

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

Pope, Alexander

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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

34.

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

Keats, John

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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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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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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

43.

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

Welles, Orson

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

Becker, Ward

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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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.

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