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What's legal isn't necessarily right and what's right, isn't necessarily legal — Jack July

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure. — Martin Luther King Jr.

There is no law, there is only conjecture. The Progressive ethos changes the law's meaning according to fad and fashion. — A.E. Samaan

The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat

By marriage the husband and wife are one person in law, that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage. — William Blackstone

A man in Thailand was arrested with more than 10,000 pairs of stolen underwear. Legal experts are expecting a brief trial. — Jimmy Fallon

If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation. — Samuel Adams

O. J. Simpson theory of legal fees: I'm not paying you; you're lucky to be here; go make a buck with your book. — John Grisham

Sometimes what is legal isn't what is right, and sometimes it needs a witch to tell the difference. — Terry Pratchett

We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream. — Ted Cruz

... The soundness of the best investments must rest not upon legal rights or remedies but upon ample financial capacity of the enterprise. — Benjamin Graham

All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up. — Ian Hislop

Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense! — Bill Drayton

We need to fix our legal immigration system. — Carly Fiorina

However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of any deficiencies in our legal system. — Kenneth Clarke

The legal status of something does not alter its moral status, nor does it change our responsibility to the truth. — John Stonestreet

I think the American legal system sucks worse than a Celine Dion cover version of Whole Lotta Love. — Dennis Miller

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. — Edmund Burke

Yesterday is past. Tomorrow is only a promise. Only today is legal tender. — Venita VanCaspel

Every name in a TV show has to be run by the legal department first. — Gina Bellman

When you do a studio picture, all the paperwork and legal stuff is already taken care of! — David Twohy

Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need. — Wendy Kopp

The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection. — Warren Farrell

I was studying to be a legal secretary when I was called to audition for 'Ken.' — Kierston Wareing

Lawyers aren't the most popular people, Miss Allen ... - Murder in Hand — Celia Conrad

You don't just go with a majority because it's the majority. You go with it because it's right. If it feels right, do it. As long as it's legal. — Joe Elliott

At that exact moment, Nancy Grace, a CNN legal commentator who combines the nuance of a sledgehammer with the social graces of a harpy.. — Charles P. Pierce

My first winner was on Legal Steps, in Ireland, at Thurles, in March 1992. I rode for Jim Bolger, and his stable jockey was Christy Roche. — Tony McCoy

The difference between divorce and legal separation is that legal separation gives a husband time to hide his money. — Johnny Carson

The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system. — David Minge

for Alinsky, democratic politics is basically a mechanism of legal extortion, justified by appeals to justice and equality. A — Dinesh D'Souza

In reality, the [American legal] system promotes chicanery, outright deceit, and other egregious conduct by trial lawyers. — Jon Krakauer

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. — Nelson Algren

The American Civil Liberties Union, has helped neutralize the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of our legal system by seeking new legal precedents. — Bill Bright

Legal land surveyors are few and far between and can find themselves in demand. — Mark Mason

Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal. — Aldo Leopold

Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't. — Edna Ferber

The difference between politics and religion is that the first makes it legal to hate, and makes the love of the second illegal. — Rebecca McKinsey

I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has. — Constance Baker Motley

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. — Ellen Key

The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant. — Constance Baker Motley

We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons. — Ban Ki-moon

Disclosure of private e-mails from government officials has been a legal issue in many states. — Bill Dedman

Although abortion has been legal nationwide for more than a quarter century, access remains difficult for many women. — David Grimes

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller. — Scott Turow

It (marijuana) will still be legal under federal law. — Dianne Feinstein

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer. — George Herbert

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer. — Will Rogers

Writing is a legal way of avoiding work without actually stealing and one that doesn't take any talent or training — Robert A. Heinlein

Man cannot exist without work, without legal, natural property. Depart from these conditions, and he becomes perverted and changed into a wild beast. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Justice isn't about fixing the past; it's about healing the past's future. — Jackson Burnett

The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous. — Lindsey Graham

Beijing's preferred method of control, in Russia as in Africa, has been legal contracts on terms advantageous to itself. — Timothy Snyder

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate. — Nicolas Chamfort

If it were legal, I'd marry food. -Niall Horan — Niall Horan

In the world of contract killings, there is no arbitration. — Kenneth Eade

Joy is wealth and love is the legal tender of the soul. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Slavery takes so many forms, as it is interwoven within legal industries and is embedded into the supply chain. — David Batstone

The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities. — Barton Gellman

The state is a vast enterprise for declaring all sorts of things legal for itself that would be illegal for us. — Llewellyn Rockwell

Taste cannot be controlled by law. — Thomas Jefferson

We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections. — Ralph G. Neas

Law is born from despair of human nature. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Are not the daily devotions conducted by these legal ecclesiastics already degenerating into a scanty attendance, and a tiresome formality? — James Madison

Genius does not need to be validated, it just needs a legal pad and a pen. — Tom Althouse

What Is Prayer? Prayer is man giving God the legal right and permission to interfere in earth's affairs. — Myles Munroe

I am Not a Pirate, I merely watch movies and delete them. Never store them on my computer. — Kalyan C. Kankanala

in my four months of legal cramming I'd learned the law is full of technicalities. Technicalities are what screw up justice. Wilcox — Frank W. Abagnale

Fed role - legal system, currency & defense, within its means. — Pat Toomey

What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity. — Toni Cade Bambara

Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals. — J.M. Coetzee

Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was not right. — Marian Wright Edelman

Tell me about our legal issues. And use small words. I don't like to think at this hour of the morning. It hurts."

~Leo to Merripen — Lisa Kleypas

Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functioning legal system. — Cherie Blair

The Business of Our Firm is Business"
-Donald W. Hudspeth from:
"The Business of America is Business"
-Calvin Coolidge — Calvin Coolidge

Fairness is what justice really is. — Potter Stewart

Why should it be illegal to sell something that's perfectly legal to give away? — George Carlin

The quicksilver of creativity will not be solidified by legal pronouncement; it will necessarily flow into new and sometimes frightening fields. — Mathew Tobriner

We have a legal system, and we have a penal code. We have the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, and people should respect this. — Adel Al-Jubeir

My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says there was any violation of law whatsoever. — Al Gore

I think pot should be legal. I don't smoke it, but I like the smell of it. — Andy Warhol

The more laws, the less justice. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

It's all interrelated, these destructive things I do. I latch on to people, like I'm collecting them. I'm always looking for a hero, you know? — Jenna Brooks

The only people that should vote should be legal. — Pam Bondi

I don't plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were. — Nick Johnson

Taiwan gives a lot of foreign aid to Costa Rica, so it looks like they are basically buying the right to fish, even though it's not legal. — Paul Watson

You don't need to see my birth certificate, or my college records, or my legal writings, or ... anything. — Barack Obama

It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos. — Bill Vaughan

American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders. — Barack Obama

rapes your wife but perfectly legal to kill a total stranger — Clara Salaman

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice. — Franklin P. Jones

I mean a lot of people think Im 19. I get carded all the time and no one think Im legal, like in the bedroom — Hannah

Principle I:;: Legal rights are presumptive rights. — William Ernest Hocking

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations. — Jerrold Nadler

Whatever else the Norman Conquest may or may not have done, it made the old haphazard state of legal affairs forever impossible. — Edward Jenks

ordinary friendships simply do not affect the common good in structured ways that could justify legal regulation. — Sherif Girgis

The end of the world will be legal. — Thomas Merton

In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal — Learned Hand

I support making sure that there are legal protects for everyone. — Debbie Stabenow

Satan is always looking for legal right and authority to torment and attack people. Whatever he has the right to do, the devil will do. — Bob Larson