Best Law And Lawyers Quotes
248 Law And Lawyers quotes by 174 unique authors
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
— Patrick Murray
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There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press
— Mark Twain
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Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.
— Ovid
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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
— Thomas More
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People must help one another; it is nature's law.
— Jean de La Fontaine
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
— Plato
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Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.
— Unknown Author
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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
— Plato
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A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor…
— Lucille Kallen
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Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone…
— William Shenstone
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Law never made men a whit more just.
— Henry David Thoreau
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It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President…
— Andrew Jackson
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To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.
— Potter Stewart
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All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which…
— Felix Frankfurter
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The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process…
— Byron White
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The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.
— Learned Hand
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Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious
— Hugo Black
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When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than…
— Frank Herbert
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When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty.
— Charles Evans Hughes
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I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.
— Roy Cohn
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The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some…
— W. Clement Stone
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The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.
— Shana Alexander
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As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.
— Isabel Paterson
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There is a moral law in this world which has its application both to individuals and organized bodies of men. You cannot go on violating…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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