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248 Law And Lawyers quotes by 174 unique authors
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It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
— John Paul Jones
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
— Immanuel Kant
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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.
— Robert Kennedy
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A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient…
— Jean Kerr
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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
— Charles Lamb
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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
— Charles Lamb
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so…
— James Madison
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There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
— Norman Mailer
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons…
— Michel de Montaigne
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The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a…
— Pope John Paul II
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Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
— William Penn
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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
— Mario Puzo
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As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
— Pythagoras
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares…
— Ayn Rand
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I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.
— Dan Rather
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
— Will Rogers
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No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.
— Donald Rumsfeld
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call…
— Walter Scott
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My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.
— Jerry Seinfeld
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