Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

- More, Thomas

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

As soon as you begin to say We have always done things this way -- perhaps that might be a better way, conscious law-making is beginning. As soon as you begin to say We do things this way -- they do things that way -- what is to be done about it? men are beginning to feel towards justice, that resides between the endless jar of right and wrong.

Cam, Helen M.

Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

Sade, Marquis De

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

10.

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

11.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

14.

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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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 is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Macklin, Charles

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

18.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

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

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

Young, Brigham

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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

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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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

25.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

27.

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

28.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

29.

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

Diderot, Denis

30.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

31.

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

Moore, Thomas

32.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

33.

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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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Chandler, Raymond

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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 judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

39.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

40.

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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

42.

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

Voltaire

43.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

44.

The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

45.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Pope, Alexander

47.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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.

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