Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Frost, Robert

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

Moore, Thomas

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Younger, Evelle

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

10.

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

Diderot, Denis

11.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

12.

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

Voltaire

15.

Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

Jefferson, Thomas

16.

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

Pope, Alexander

17.

This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

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

Becker, Ward

19.

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

Proverb, Spanish

20.

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

21.

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

22.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

23.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

24.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

25.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

26.

Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Capote, Truman

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When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Eliot, George

28.

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

Welles, Orson

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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

30.

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

31.

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

Epitaph

32.

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

Engels, Friedrich

33.

Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

34.

The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

35.

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

Puzo, Mario

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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

38.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

39.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

Talmud, The

41.

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

42.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

43.

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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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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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

Sade, Marquis De

46.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

47.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

48.

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

Johnson, Samuel

49.

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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.

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