Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Sprecht, Robert D.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

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

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Mellor, David

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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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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

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

17.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Stirner, Max

19.

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

Welles, Orson

20.

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

Puzo, Mario

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Frost, Robert

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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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.

28.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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

30.

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

Talmud, The

31.

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

33.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Becker, Ward

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb

39.

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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Butler, Samuel

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Voltaire

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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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