Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

Epitaph

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Proverb

10.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Proverb, Spanish

15.

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.

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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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If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.

Ostman, Virginia

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Talmud, The

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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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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

30.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Pope, Alexander

32.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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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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Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Voltaire

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Keats, John

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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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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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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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