Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

- Owen, Robert

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Mellor, David

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Pope, Alexander

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Moore, Thomas

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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Proverb

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Montesquieu, Charles 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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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, 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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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Stirner, Max

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Bacon, Francis

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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Jones, Sir William

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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.

43.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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.

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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