Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Jones, Sir William

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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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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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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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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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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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Engels, Friedrich

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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.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Mellor, David

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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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.

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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 judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

Jones, Franklin P.

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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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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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principles of fear or reason, but from passion.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Talmud, The

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The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Brecht, Bertolt

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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

Pope, Alexander

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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

Goldman, Emma

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

Epitaph

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

Franklin, Benjamin