Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Mill, John Stuart

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Engels, Friedrich

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

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Moore, Thomas

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

Trapp, June L.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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

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

Becker, Ward

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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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 more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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

Talmud, The

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The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Epitaph

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

Stirner, Max

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Proverb

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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