Best Law And Lawyers Lines
248 Law And Lawyers quotes by 174 unique authors
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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
— Mark Twain
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I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.
— Max Walker
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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
— Earl Warren
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The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.
— Daniel Webster
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The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.
— Will Rogers
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Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.
— Jean Anouilh
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.
— Abraham Lincoln
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The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged…
— John Marshall
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There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.
— Stokely Carmichael
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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.
— George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves…
— A. E. Housman
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy.
— Mortimer Zuckerman
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Extreme law is often extreme injustice.
— Terence
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The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.
— Maria Edgeworth
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Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
— Anton Chekhov
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In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.
— Richard Whately
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Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who…
— George Savile
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I consider women who are authors, lawyers and politicians are monsters
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
— Thomas More
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I've never been in love. I've always been a lawyer.
— John Keats
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The constitutional prohibition against laws respecting an establishment of religion must at least mean that in this country it is no part of the business…
— Hugo Black
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