Lawyers

(30 votes)   Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Earl Wilson
1907-, American newspaper columnist

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(22 votes)   It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Gerald F. Lieberman
American Writer

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(306 votes)   I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

John Keats
1795-1821, British Poet

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(298 votes)   If they only would kill all lawyers and doctors

William Shakespeare
Elizabethan

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(245 votes)   Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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(232 votes)   I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings.

Asoka
?-238 B.C., Buddhist Emperor of India

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(203 votes)   Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

Franklin P. Jones

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(166 votes)   Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(157 votes)   Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverbs

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

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(139 votes)   The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

Alexis De Tocqueville
1805-1859, French Social Philosopher

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

Jean De La Bruyere
1645-1696, French Writer

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(131 votes)   It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(125 votes)   Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

The Talmud
BC 500?-400? AD, Jewish Archive of Oral Tradition

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(125 votes)   The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.

Vaclav Havel
1936-, Czech Playwright, President

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