Quotes about Legal

"Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do."

"Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made."

"Justice delayed is justice denied."

"If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable."

"It is legal because I wish it."

"Common sense often makes good law."

"The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer."

"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."

"Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it."

"The safety of the people shall be the highest law."

"I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer."

"In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls."

"People do not win people fights. Lawyers do."

"Make crime pay. Become a lawyer."

"I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care."

"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery."

"If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it."

"In law, nothing is certain but the expense."

"I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five."

"Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law."

"Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke."

"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."

"Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers."

"That which is not just is not law."

"It is right to give every man his due."

"In today's Britain, the weakest among us are often assumed to be minority communities. In fact, the weakest are those minorities-within-minorities for whom the legal right to exit from their communities' constraints amounts to nothing before the enforcement of cultural and religious shaming."

"Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing."

"The increasing legal pressure against archives has created anxieties among researchers, librarians, and journalists. They cite the need to protect sources who wish to make a record for posterity; procuring documents and interviews from those sources will be difficult if the fruits are only one subpoena away from disclosure."

"I have always stood up to protect women's access to safe and legal abortion, birth control and health care at Planned Parenthood."

"Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction."

"Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration's current policy affects that legality; 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government."

"One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now."

"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."