Quotes about law and lawyers

"Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it."

Johnson on law and lawyers   

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

Johnson, Samuel on law and lawyers   

"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 on law and lawyers   

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

Jones, Franklin P. on law and lawyers
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"The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law."

Jones, Sir William on law and lawyers   

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

Keats, John on law and lawyers   

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

Kennedy, Robert F. on law and lawyers
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"Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress."

King Jr. Martin Luther on law and lawyers
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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 on law and lawyers
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"Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property."

La Bruyere, Jean De on law and lawyers   

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

La Bruyere, Jean De on law and lawyers   

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

Lafollette, Suzanne on law and lawyers   

"Lawyers I suppose were children once."

Lamb, Charles on law and lawyers   

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"He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides."

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

Lieberman, Gerald F. on 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 on law and lawyers   

"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 on law and lawyers   

"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 on law and lawyers   

"Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns."

Louis XIV on law and lawyers   

"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 on law and lawyers   

"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 on law and lawyers   

"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 on law and lawyers   

"The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter."

Maxwell, James Clerk on law and lawyers   

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

Mcilvanney, William on law and lawyers   

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

Mellor, David on law and lawyers   

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

Mencken, H. L. on law and lawyers
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"Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them."

Mencken, H. L. on law and lawyers   

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

Mill, John Stuart on law and lawyers   

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

Mille, Cecil B. De on law and lawyers   

"Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it."

Mizner, Addison on law and lawyers
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"It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on law and lawyers   

"Useless laws weaken the necessary laws."

Montesquieu, Charles De on law and lawyers   

"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 on law and lawyers   

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

Montesquieu, Charles De on law and lawyers   

"The severity of the laws prevents their execution."

Montesquieu, Charles De on law and lawyers   

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

Moore, Thomas on law and lawyers   

"Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters."

More, Thomas on law and lawyers   

"In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch."

Nizer, Louis on 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 on law and lawyers   

"Petty laws breed great crimes."

Ouida on law and lawyers