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I tried to do something interesting for lawyers,and
for the other people who love justice.
I think that you will like each next one more than
previous one.
Sincerely
Author Jeton Tahiri
1.
Where law
ends,tiranny begins.

William Pitt
2.
The laws itself follows
gold.
Propertius
3.
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 it.

Theodore Roosvelt
4.
A good lawyers makes you belive
the truth.
But a great lawyer makes you
believe in the lie.
Unknown
5.
Bad laws are not forever
and if we work together,
we can change them.
Edward Snowden
6.
99% of lawyers give the
rest of a bad name.

Unknown
7.
Without law men are
beasts.

Maxwell Anderson
8.
Where there's a
will,there's a lawyer.

Unknown
9.
A good and faithful judge
ever prefers the honorable
to the expedient.
Horace
10.
Bad laws are the worst
sort of tyranny.

Edmund Burke
11.
Extreme justice is often
justice.

Jean Racine
12.
A judge who cannot punish, in
the end associates themselves
with the criminal.
Johann W. V. Goethe
13.
Bad laws are easy to
legislate, but tough to
implement.
R. Jaganhattan
14.
Extreme justice is
often justice.
Jean Racine
15.
Good lawyers know the
law,great lawyers know the
judge.
Unknown
16.
Courts are places where the
ending is written first and all
that precedes is simply
vaudeville.
Charles Bukowsky
17.
Injustice anywhere is a
threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King


18.

A certain witty advocate Marchand


observed:
One would risk being disgusted if one
saw politics,justice and one's dinner in
the making.
Sebastien Roch Nicolas
19.
I think the first duty of
society is justice.

Alexander Hamilton
20.
Justice does not come from
the outside.
It comes from inner peace.

Barbara Hall
21.
Wherever Law ends,
Tyranny begins.

John Locke
22.
A jury consists of twelve persons
chose to decide who has the
better lawyer.

Robert Fross
23.
In the halls of justice,the
only justice is in the halls.
Lenny Bruce
24.
Law and the justice are not always the
same.
When they aren't ,destroying the law may
be the first step toward changing it.

Gloria Steinem
25.
Where there is a power,there
is resistance.

Michael Foucault
26.
Every new time will give
its law.

Maxim Gorky
27.
Thieves for their robbery
have authority when judges
steal themselves.

William Shakespeare
28.
We can best get
justice,by doing justice.

Theodore Roosevelt
29.
I can't do literary work for the
rest of this year,because I'm
meditating another lawsuit and
looking around for a defendant.
Mark Twain
30.
A rule that cannot be bent
will certainly be broken.

Robert Brault
31.
No written law has been more
binding than unwritten custom
supported by popular opinion.

Carrie Chapman Catt


32.
A lawyer is a gentleman who
rescues your estate from your
enemies and keeps it from
himself.
Lord Brougham
33.
Where law
ends,tiranny begins.

William
34.
A lawyer with his briefcase
can steal more then hundred
men with guns.
Unknown
35.
The essence of justice
is mercy.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin


36.
A lawyer will do anything to win
a case,sometimes he will even
tell theptruth.

Patrick Murray
37.
Justice consists not in being neutral
between right and wrong,but in
finding out the right and upholding
it,whereever found,against the wrong.

Theodore Roosvelt
38.
Justice requires that to lawfully constituted
Authority there be given that respect and
obedience which is its due,that the laws which
are made shall be in wise conformity with the
common good,and that as a matter of
conscience all men shall render obedience to
these laws.

Pope Pius VI
39.
Where justice is denied,where powerty is
enforced,where ignorance prevails,and
where any one class is made to feel that
society is an organized conspiracy to
oppress,rob and degrade them,neither
persons nor property will be safe.

Frederick Douglass
40.
If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of
the law of the government,they plainly can do
nothing to protect the people against the
oppressions of the government,for there are no
oppressions which the government may not
authorize by law.
Lysander Spoonder
41.
Justice is the tolerable accommodation
of the conflicting interests of society,and
I don't believe there is any royal road to
attain such accommodation concretely.

Judge L.H.
42.
Many that live deserve death.
And some die that deserve life.
Can you give it to them?
Then be not too eager to deal out death in
the name of justice,fearing for your own
safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

JRR Tolkien
43.
Although the legal and ethical definitions
of right are the antithesis of each other.
Most writers use them as synonyms.
They confuse power with goodness,and
mistake law for justice.

Charles T.Sprading
44.
Throughout history,it has been the inaction
of those who could have acted,the
indifference of those who should have
known better,the silence of the voice of
justice when it mattered most,that has made
it possible for evil to triumph.

Haile Selassie I
45.
The law embodies the story of a nations
development through many
centuries,and it cannot be dealt with as
if it contained only the axioms and
corollaries of a book of mathematics.

Oliver Wendell Holmes


46.
If one man can be allowed to
determine for himself what is
law,every man can.
That means first chaos,then tyranny.
Legal process is an essential part of
the democratic process.
Felix Frankfurter
47.
Injustice requires that to lawfully constituted
Authority there be given that respect and obedience
which is its due,that the laws which are made shall
be in wise conformity with the common good,and
that,as a matter of conscience all men shall render
obedience to these laws.

Pope Pius XI
48.
The law is an androit mixture of customs
that are beneficial to society,and could be
followed even if no law existed,and others
that are of advantage to a ruling
minority,but harmful to the masses of men
and can be enforced on them only by terror.

Peter Kropotkin
49.
The utmost excellence at which humanity
can arrive is a constant and determinate
pursuit of justice,without regard to present
dangers or advantages,a continual
reference of every action to the divine will.

Samuel Jackson
50.
Be pacefull,be courteous,obey the
law,respect everyone.
But if someone puts his hand on
you,send him to the cemetery.

Malcolm X
51.
In matters of truth and justice,there is
no difference between large and small
problems,forissuesconcerning the
treatment of people are all the same.

Albert Einstein
52.
Through force can protect in
emergency,onlyjustice,fairness,con
sideration and cooperation can
finally lead men to the dawn of
eternal peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
53.
All the greatest things are simple,and
may be expressed in a single world :
Freedom,justice,honour,duty,mercy,
hope.

Churchill
54.
Who to himself is law,no
law doth need,offends no
law,and is a king indeed.

George Chapman
55.
America is a country where,thanks
to Congress,there are 40 million
laws to enforce 10 commandments.

Unknown
56.
Judges are but men,and are swayed like
other men by vehement prejudices.
This is corruption in reality,give it
whatever other name you please.

David Dudley Field


57.
Time is the justice that
examines all offenders.

William Shakespeare
58.
Justice should remove the
bandage from her eyes long
enough to distinguish between
the vicious and the unfortunate.

Robert G.Ingersoll
59.
Because just as good morals,if
they are to be maintained,have
need of the laws,so the laws,if
they are to be observed,have
need of good morals.
Niccolo Machiavelli
60.
Justice is itself the great standing
policy of civil society,and any
eminent departure from it,under any
circumstances,lies under the
suspicion of being no policy at all.

Edmund Burke
61.
Somebody recently figured out
that we have 35 million laws to
enforce the Ten Commandments.

Bert Masterson & Earl Wilson


62.
Do justice to your brother,and you will
come to love him.
But do injustice to him because you
don't love him,and you will come to hate
him.

John Ruskin
63.
Courage is of no value unless
accompanied by justice.
Yet if all men became just there
would be no need for courage.

Agesilaus II
64.
Good laws lead to the making
of better ones; bad ones bring
about worse.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
65.
Law is not justice and a trial is
not a scientific enquiry into truth.
A trial is the resolution of a
dispute.

Edison Haines
66.
When you go into court,you are
putting your fate into the hands
of twelve people who weren't
smart enough to get out of jury
duty.
Norm Crosby
67.
Revenge is a kind of wild
justice,which the more man's
nature runs to,the more ought
law to weed it out.
Francis Bacon
68.
In the end we must remember
that no amount of rules or their
enforcement will enforce those
struggle with justice on their
side.
Nelson Mandela
69.
There are many things that
laws does not forbid,which
nevertheless it silently
condemns.
James A Ballentine
70.
Those terrifying verbal jungles
called laws are simply such
directives,accumulated,codified
and systematized through the
centuries.

S.I.Hayakawa
71.
There can be no justice so long
as laws are absolute.
Even life itself is an exercise in
exceptions.
Jean Luc Picard
72.
Where there are laws,
he who have not broken
them,need not tremble.

Vittorio Alfieri
73.
Our judgments judge us,and
nothing reveals us,exposes our
weaknesses, more ingeniously
than the attitude of pronouncing
upon our fellows.
Paul Valery
74.
Despair and frustration will
not shake our belief that the
resistance is the only way of
liberation.
Emile Lahoud
75.
I have forgotten more law than
you ever knew,but allow me to
say,I have not forgotten much.

Unknown
76.
Where is the power,there
is resistance.
Michel Foucault
77.
The whole function of justice
has become petrified and
encrusted with the barnacles of
antiquated tradition.
Margaret Sanger
78.
Laws are like cobwebs,which
may catch small flies,but let
wasps and hornets break
through.
Jonhattan Swift
79.
Any society that needs
disclaimers has too many
lawyers.
Erik Pepke
80.
If the laws could speak for
themselves, they would
complain of the lawyers in
the first place.
Lord Halifax
81.
True peace is not merely
the absence of tension.
It is the presence of justice.
Martin Luther King
82.
I was never ruined, but twice.
Once when I lost the lawsuit,
and once when I won one.

Voltaire
83.
The whole function of justice has
become petrified and encrusted
with the-barnacles.
Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Sojourner Truth
84.
When there's a single
thief,it's robbery.
When there are a thousand
thieves,it's a taxation.
Vanya Cohen
85.
You can't legislate intelligence
and common sense into people.
Will Rogers
86.
When you have no basis
for an argument,abuse
the plaintiff.
Cicero
87.
I have always found
that mercy bears richer
fruits than strict justice.
Abraham Lincoln
88.
It is hard to say whether doctors
of law or divinity have made the
greater advances in the lucrative
business of mystery.

Edmund Burke
89.
I say that justice is
truth in action.
Benjamin Disraeli
90.
Under a government which
imprisons unjustly,the true
place for a just man is also a
prison.
Henry David Thoreau
91.
Justice moves slowly and
remorselessly upon it's
path,but it reaches its goal
eventually.
Churchill
92.
The houses of lawyers
are roofed with the
skins of litigants.
Welsh
93.
Hug a police officer.
It's the law.

Unknown
94.
It is certain,in any case,that
ignorance allied with power
is the most ferocious
enemy justice can have.
James Baldwin
95.
Law never made men
a whit more just.
Henry David Thoreau
96.
Justice should not only
be done,but it should be
seen to have been done.
Unknown
97.
To make laws that man cannot ,
and will not obey,serves to
bring all laws into contempt.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
98.
The probability that we may fail
in the struggle ought not to
deter us from the support of a
cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln
99.
A law is valuable, not because
it is a law, but because there
is right in it.
Henry Ward BEECHER
100.
It is in justice that the
ordering of society is
centered.
Aristotle
101.
A man's vanity tells him
what is honor,a man's
conscience what is justice.
Walter Savage Landor
102.
The more corrupt the
republic,the more
numerous of laws.
Unknown
103.
If there were no bad
people,that would be no
good lawyers.
Unknown
104.
A system cannot fail
those it was never
meant to protect.
W.E.B. Du Bois
105.
Be you ever so high,the
law is above you.
Unknown
106.
Corn can't expect justice
from a court composed
of chickens.
African
107.
The trouble with the law
these days is that criminals
know their rights better than
their wrongs.
Unknown
108.
An appeal,is when you ask
one court to show its
contempt for another court.

Finely Petter Dunne


109.
There is no such thing as
justice in the abstract,it is
merely a compact between
men.
Epicurus
110.
An unjust law is itself
a species of violence.
.

Mahatma Gandhi
111.
Only painters and lawyers
can change white to
black.
Unknown
112.
Sometimes even
lawyers need lawyers.
Unknown
113.
Injustice anywhere is a
threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King
114.
As man seeks justice in
equality , so society
seeks order in anarchy.

Pierre Joseph Proudhon


115.
No man suffers injustice
without learning,vaguely
but surely,what justice is.
Isaac Rosenfeld
116.
Let justice be
done,though the world
perish.
Ferdinand 1
117.
If we take liberties with
justice,there won't be either
liberty or justice in the long run.

Unknown
118.
There is no such thing
as justice,in or out of
court.
Clarence Darrow
119.
Only the man who has enough
good in him to feel the justice
of the penalty can be punished.

William Ernest Hocking


120.
Nobody can give you freedom.
Nobody can give you equality
or justice or anything.If you're a
man,you take it.
Malcolm X
121.Liberty,equality - bad principles !
The only true principle for humanity is
justice.
And justice to the feeble is protection
and kindness.

Henri Frederick Amiel


122.
How can justice be secured in
Athens?
If those who are not injured feel
as indignant as those who are.
Solon
123.
Justice is a temporary thing
that must at last come to an
end,but the conscience is
eternal and will never die.
Martin Luther
124.
Law is not law, if it
violates the principles of
eternal justice.
Lydia Maria Child
125.
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 those limits.
Leo Tolstoy
126.
Justice will not be served until
those who are unaffected are as
outraged as those who are.
Benjamin Franklin
127.
Many things have been introduced
into the common law which are
contrary to logical reason,for the
sake of the common welfare.
James A. Ballentine
128.
One of the seven was wont to say :
That laws were like cobwebs,where
the small flies were caught,and the
great brake through.

Francis Bacon
129.
The best way to get a
bad law repealed is to
enforce it strictly.
Abraham Lincoln
130.
Man's capacity for justice
makes democracy possible,but
man's inclination to injustice
makes democracy necessary.
Reinhold Niebuhr
131.
Where there are laws,
innocence need not
tremble.
Vittorio Alfieri
132.
The more corrupt
the republic, the more
numerous of laws.
Unknown
133.
Peace is not absence of war,it is a
virtue,a state of mind,a disposition
for benevolence,confidence,justice.
Spinoza
134.
The law of England is the
greatest grievance of the
nation,very expensive and
dilatory.
Bishop Gilbert Burnet
135.
In keeping people
straight,principle is not as
powerful as a policeman.
Abel Hermant
136.
Justice is a machine that,when
someone has once given it the
starting push,rolls on of itself.
John Galsworthy
137.
Law is the only game
where the best players
get to sit on the bench.
Unknown
138.
Legislative acts murder
more men than the
assassin.
James Lendall
139.
No law can be sacred to
me.
But that of my nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
140.
Peace without justice
is tyranny.
William Allen White
141.
Having your fate rest in the hands
of a jury is the same as entrusting
yourself to surgery with a
mentally retarded doctor.
Bill Messing
142.
Judge:
a law student who marks
his own papers.
H.L.Mencken
143.
Law is nothing unless
close behind it stands a
warm living public opinion.
Wendell Phillips
144.
Men fight for freedom,then they
begin to accumulate laws to
take it away from themselves.
Unknown
145.
If it were not for
injustice,men would
not know justice.

Heraclitus
146.
The United States is the
greatest law factory,the
world as ever known.

Charles Evans Hughes


147.
The virtue of justice consists in
moderation,as regulated by
wisdom.
Aristotle
148.
Injustice is relatively easy
to bear what stings is
justice.
H.L. Mencken
149.
Justice which does not bear
a sword beside its scales
soon falls into ridicule.
Charles de Gaulle
150.
It is not a justice system.
It is just a system.

Bob Enyart
151.
There is a plenty of law at
the end of a nightstick.
Grover A.Whalen
152.
Justice may be blind, but
she has very sophisticated
listening devices.
Edgar Argo
153.
In the absence of
justice,what is sovereignty
,but organized robbery?
Unknown
154.
Justice without might is
helpless,might without
justice is tyrannicall.
Blaise Pascal
155.
The law in its majestic equality,forbids
the rich as well as the poor to sleep
under bridges,to beg in the
streets,and to steal bread.
Anatole France
156.
Many laws as certainly make
bad men,as bad men make
many laws.
Walter Savage Landor
157.
Justice is truth in
action.
Benjamin Disraeli
158.
It is not what a lawyer tells me I
may do,but what humanity and
justice tell me I ought to do.
Edmund Burke
159.
The problem with any
unwritten law is that
you don't know where
to go to erase it.
Glaser and Way
160.
It takes a long time to learn
that a courtroom is the last
place in the world for
learning the truth.
Alice Koller
161.
Of all the things of a man's soul
which he has within him,justice
is the greatest good and injustice
the greatest evil.

Plato
162.
It is the trade of lawyer to question
everything,yield nothing,and to talk
by the hour.
Thomas Jefferson
163.
The jury passing on the
prisoners life,may in the
sworn twelve have a thief or
two Guiltier than him the try.
William Shakespeare
164.
Laws are spider webs
through which the big flies
pass and the little ones get
caught.
Honore de Balzac
165.
Justice is the constant and
perpetual will to allot to
every man his due.
Domitus Ulpian
166.
One can only imagine how
effective justice might be if
admissible in a court of law.
Robert Brault
167.
It is the spirit and not the
form of law that keeps
justice alive.

Earl Warren
168.
Law is order, and good
law is good order.
Aristotle
169.
This is a court of law,young
man,not a court of justice.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr


170.
Justice is open to everyone
in the same way.
Judge Sturgess
171.
The greatest justice in life is
that your vision and looks
tend to go simultaneously.

Kevin Bacon
172.
The foundations of justice are that
no one shall suffer wrong,then ,that
the public good be promoted.

Cicero
173.
Laws change as the
seasons.
Edward Counsel
174.
It was so cold last winter that I
saw a lawyer walking down the
street with his hands in his own
pockets.

Unknown
175.
The state calls its own violence
law,but that of the individual
crime.
Max Stirner
176.
Justice is not only the
absence of oppression,it is
the presence of opportunity.

Barack Obama
177.
The dead can not cry out for
justice.
It is a duty of the living to do
some for them.
Lois McMaster Bujold
178.
Lawyers are just like
physicians.
What one says,the other
contradicts.
Unknown
179.
It's strange that men should
take up crime when there are
so many legal ways to be
dishonest.

Unknown
180.
Justice consists of doing
no one injury,decency in
giving no one offence.
Cicero
181.
Justice is love correcting
that which revolts against
love.
Martin Luther King
182.
The sad duty of politics
is to establish justice
in a sinful world.
Reinhold Niebuhr
183.
The sad duty of politics is
to establish justice in a
sinful world.
Reinhold Niebuhr
184.
The injustice done to an
individual is sometimes
of service to the public.
Junius
185.
Poverty is the
mother of crime.

Marcus Aurelius
186.
The United States is a nation
of laws , badly written and
randomly enforced.
Frank Zappa
187.
Justice is a contract of
expediency,entered upon to
prevent men harming of
being harmed.

Epicurus
188.
Laws are only felt when
the individual comes in
conflict with them.
Suzanne La Follette
189.
May be is very well,but must
is the master.
It is my duty to show justice
without recompense.
Seneca the Younger
190.
The greater the number of
laws and enactments,the
more thieves and robbers
will be.
Lao Tzu
191.
Laws that do not
embody public opinion
can never be enforced.
Elbert Hubbard
192.
The final test of civilization
of a people is the
respect they have for law.
Lewis F. Korns
193.
Laws or ordinances
unobserved, or partially
attended to, had better never
have been made.
George Washington
194.
The sword of justice has
no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral
195.
Let justice be
done,though the heavens
may fall.
William Murray
196.
The right to be let alone
is indeed the beginning
of all freedom.
William O.Douglas
197.
Laws like sausages,cease to
inspire respect in proportion
as we know how they are
made.
John G.S.
198.
The foundation of justice
is good faith.
Cicero
199.
Law without justice is
a wound without a
cure.
William Scott Downey
200.
Justice is indiscriminately
due to all,without regard
to numbers,wealth or rank.
John Jay
201.
Military justice is justice
what military is to music.
Groucho Marx
202.
Laws are not masters
but servants, and he rules
them who obeys them.

Henry Ward Beecher


203.
Lawyers are
merchants of misery.
Unknown
204.
The law is the public
conscience.
Thomas Hobbes
205.
The more laws the
more offenders.
Thomas Fuller
206.
Law is bottomless.
John Arbuthnot
207.
The law of heaven and
earth is life for life.
Byron
208.
Petty laws breed
great crimes.
Ouida
209.
Laws are spider webs.
Nothing is to be preferred
before justice.
Socrates
210.
Laws are made by the old,
exceptions by the young.

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