Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Jones, Sir William

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

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

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

Epitaph

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

Frost, Robert

Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Talmud, The

It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Becker, Ward

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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 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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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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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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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

24.

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

25.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

27.

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

Young, Brigham

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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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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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Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

33.

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

Diderot, Denis

34.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mellor, David

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

Proverb

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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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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

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

45.

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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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Chandler, Raymond

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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principles of fear or reason, but from passion.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.