"Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.

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Sir Francis Bacon

Quotes by Albert Einstein in Law category:

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"Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in
science, nor in going underground. Our defense
is in law and order."
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to
reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality."

Many of life's circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you
choose to keep, the people you choose to be with; and, the laws you choose to obey

Charles Millhuff quotes

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will
find a way around the laws.

Plato quotes (Ancient Greek Philosopher

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better
lawyer.
Robert Frost quotes (American poet, 1874-1963)

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 still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln quotes (American 16th US President (1861-65),

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of
the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Albert Einstein quotes

The more laws, the less justice.

 Marcus Tullius Cicero quotes (Ancient Roman Lawyer

A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with
guns.

Mario Puzo quotes

Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are
exactly the same and show how they are different

Hart Pomerantz quotes

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 quotes (American entertainer, famous for his pithy and homespun
humour, 1879-

Law

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more
advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) British statesman and philosopher.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to
true time.

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American politician.

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) British philosopher.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) British philosopher.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't
understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) German writer.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health,
and dissipate your property.

Jean de la Bruyre (1645-1696) French satiric moralist.

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

Jean de la Bruyre (1645-1696) French satiric moralist.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our
Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity -- the law of nature and of nations.

Edmund Burke (1729-1797) British political writer.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their
enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and
nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Law

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Marcus Tulius Cicero (106-43 BC) Writer, politician and great roman orator.
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) British clergyman, sportsman and author.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Clarence S. Darrow (1857-1938) American lawyer

Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a
slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's
going mad by grains.

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) British novelist.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) British novelist.

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a
counter authority to the law.

Denis Diderot (1713-1784) French philosopher.

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) British politician and author.

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well
for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

George Eliot (1819-1880) British writer.

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of
contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part
so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) U.S. poet, essayist and lecturer.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) U.S. poet, essayist and lecturer

Law

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very
readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution;
the only wrong what is against it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) U.S. poet, essayist and lecturer.

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the
twisting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) U.S. poet, essayist and lecturer.

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) U.S. poet, essayist and lecturer.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Henry Fielding (1707-1754) English novelist and dramatist.

Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist and philosopher.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist and philosopher.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Preeminent leader of Indian nationalism.

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, novelist and dramatist.
Law

This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) American author and poet.

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third president of the United States.

Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws
of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third president of the United States.

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.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) British author.

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

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) British author.

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

John Keats (1795-1821) British poet.

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.

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) American black leader.

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.

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) American black leader.

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang
the traitor.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Politician. President of the United States.

Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the
pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist, satirist and social critic.

Law

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

Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist, satirist and social critic.
It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) French philosopher and essayist.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) French mathematician, physicist and philosopher.

Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet and satirist.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb
Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.

Proverb
Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb
The more laws the less justice.

Proverb
The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb
Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.