Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Law

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don’t know anything and can’t read.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

Society cannot exist without law and order, and cannot advance except through vigorous innovators.
Bertrand A. Russell (1872–1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician, Social Critic

Every law is an infraction of liberty.
Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) British Philosopher, Economist

When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool.
Sydney Smith (1771–1845) English Clergyman, Essayist, Wit

Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and nobler as they roll along: follow them back upstream to their sources and all you find is a tiny spring, hardly recognizable; as time goes by it swells with pride and grows in strength.
Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) French Essayist

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778–1868) Scottish Jurist, Politician

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
John Keats (1795–1821) English Poet

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.
Truman Capote (1924–84) American Novelist

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
Denis Diderot (1713–84) French Philosopher, Writer

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It’s what we have because we can’t have justice.
William McIlvanney (1936–2015) Scottish Novelist, Short Story Writer, Poet

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
Washington Irving (1783–1859) American Essayist, Biographer, Historian

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) British Philosopher, Economist

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.
William Blackstone (1723–80) English Judge, Jurist, Academic

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Laws are never as effective as habits.
Adlai Stevenson (1900–65) American Diplomat, Politician, Orator

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645–96) French Satiric Moralist, Author

The court is like a palace built of marble—made up of very hard, and very polished materials.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645–96) French Satiric Moralist, Author

A fish that hangs in the net, like a poor man’s right in the law, will hardly come out of it.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

A country is considered the more civilized the more wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful.
Primo Levi (1919–87) Italian Novelist, Poet, Chemist

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws
Konstantin Stanislavski (1863–1938) Russian Actor, Theater Personality

When violence comes into the house, law and justice leave through the chimney.
Turkish Proverb

To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws, and the people the magistrates.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet

Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.
James Anthony Froude (1818–94) British Historian, Novelist, Biographer, Editor

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Friedrich Engels (1820–95) German Socialist Political Philosopher

We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it up to fear the birds of prey, and letting it keep one shape till custom make it their perch, and not their terror.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
Montesquieu (1689–1755) French Political Philosopher, Jurist

The Jews ruin themselves at their passover; the Moors, at their marriages; and the Christians, in their lawsuits.
Spanish Proverb

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) American Social Reformer

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