Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Mellor, David

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Puzo, Mario

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

Pomerantz, Hart

12.

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De

13.

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

Young, Brigham

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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 severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

17.

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

Diderot, Denis

18.

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

19.

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

Trapp, June L.

20.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

21.

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.

22.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

23.

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

24.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

25.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

26.

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

Nizer, Louis

27.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

28.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

30.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

31.

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

32.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

33.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

35.

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

Froude, James A.

36.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

37.

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

Keats, John

38.

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

39.

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

Wilson, Earl

40.

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

Voltaire

41.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

44.

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

46.

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

47.

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

48.

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

49.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Thoreau, Henry David