Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Proverb

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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Lippmann, Walter

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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 law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

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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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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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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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

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

Irving, Washington

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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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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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 law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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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

44.

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

Voltaire

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