Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice -- however much we might desire it.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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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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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Gladstone, William E.

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

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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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Diderot, Denis

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Mellor, 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.

Sutrakritanga

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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

Stirner, Max

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

40.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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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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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Puzo, Mario

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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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 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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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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An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle