Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Lieberman, Gerald F.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Voltaire

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

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

Engels, Friedrich

11.

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

Keats, John

12.

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Swift, Jonathan

13.

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

Wilson, Earl

14.

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

Proverb

15.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

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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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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 good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

21.

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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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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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

24.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

25.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

26.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

27.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

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

Jones, Sir William

34.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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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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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

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

Owen, Robert

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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

43.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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