Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

- Kennedy, Robert F.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Owen, Robert

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

Voltaire

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

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

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

Becker, Ward

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

Keats, John

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Mencken, H. L.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

11.

Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

Dickens, Charles

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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 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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

15.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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 law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

24.

This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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

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I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings.

Asoka

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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Stirner, Max

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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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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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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

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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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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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