Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Mellor, David

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

1.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

2.

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

Young, Brigham

3.

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

Shakespeare, William

4.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Gladstone, William E.

5.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

6.

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.

7.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

8.

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

9.

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

10.

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Montesquieu, Charles De

11.

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

12.

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

13.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

14.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

16.

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

17.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

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

Wilson, Earl

19.

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

20.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

21.

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

22.

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

Mellor, David

23.

No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

Arendt, Hannah

24.

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

Talmud, The

25.

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

Pomerantz, Hart

26.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

27.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

28.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

29.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

31.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

32.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

33.

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

34.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

35.

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

36.

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

Mencken, H. L.

37.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

38.

He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.

Proverb, Spanish

39.

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

40.

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

Epitaph

41.

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

Engels, Friedrich

42.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

43.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

44.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

45.

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

46.

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

47.

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

48.

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

Trapp, June L.

49.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

50.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne