Legal Quotes

99. I’m not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.

^{Anita Hill}

100. Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

^{Marcus Tullius Cicero}

101. I have been surrounded by some of the smartest, brightest, most caring lawyers, by agents who are willing to risk their lives for others, by support staff that are willing to work as hard as they can.

^{Janet Reno}

102. Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

^{Edmund Burke}

103. To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.

^{Potter Stewart}

104. Misery is the company of lawsuits.

^{Francois Rabelais}

105. 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}

106. I wouldn’t pretend to tell you we don’t pay our lawyers well.

^{Jay Alan Sekulow}

107. Your legal career is but a means to an end, and… that end is building the kingdom of God.

^{Amy Coney Barrett}

108. Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.

^{John Kennedy}

109. You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

^{Hillary Clinton}

110. People spend so much time in their cars, and it’s a legal way to have fun by speeding a little bit or testing yourself a little bit, and you get to invest in your car. For some people, it becomes their baby.

^{Jordana Brewster}

111. Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

^{Martin Luther King, Jr.}

112. Some of my legal colleagues are the most creative people I know!

^{Belinda Johnson}

113. Within my social circle, there is a large group of people who will take bitcoin as legal tender; like, you can go to them and settle debts in Bitcoin, and they will happily take it.

^{Naval Ravikant}

114. I think lawyers who engage in pro bono service to protect those who cannot help themselves are truly the heroes and the heroines of the legal profession.

^{Janet Reno}

115. As a lawyer and a former prosecutor, I know the limits of the power and authority of the president. I know what is legal and what is not.

^{Rodrigo Duterte}

116. Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.

^{W. E. B. Du Bois}

117. We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice.

^{Sonia Sotomayor}

118. I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.

^{Rand Paul}

119. Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

^{Iain Banks}

120. I think a child should be allowed to take his father’s or mother’s name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

^{James Joyce}

121. Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

^{Ayn Rand}

122. Legal aid is central to righting wrongs and rectifying injustice.

^{Sadiq Khan}

123. Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.

^{J. William Fulbright}

124. I write on big yellow legal pads – ideas in outline form when I’m doing stand-up and stuff. It’s vivid that way. I can’t type it into an iPad – I think that would put a filter into the process.

^{Robin Williams}

125. Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

^{Franklin P. Jones}

126. The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government.

^{Lysander Spooner}

127. There is a separation – a very clear separation – between the judiciary, the legal system, and the political system in this country, and that’s why Labor has a problem with the issue of mandatory sentencing as a principle.

^{Anthony Albanese}

128. 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}

129. Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.

^{Michael Jordan}

130. Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

^{Ellen Key}

131. No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

^{Joseph Addison}

132. The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

^{Dorothy Day}

133. When I was on ‘Hurt Bert’ on FX – and I’m not crapping on FX, I’m just being honest – there was a point when I realized that they didn’t care if I died. If I died, they’d say ‘Of course it’s a legalthing, but think of the numbers.’

^{Bert Kreischer}

134. One: balance the budget now, not later. Two: Get Americans jobs by ending illegal immigration and making legal immigration harder. Lastly: Impose term limits.

^{Virgil Goode}

135. We hope that the Commonwealth Sports movement is playing a meaningful role in the wider global conversation around tolerance, empowerment, and legal recognition for all.

^{Tom Daley}

136. People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.

^{Scott Turow}

137. She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

^{Ruth Bader Ginsburg}

138. Men’s indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

^Thucydides

139. The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.

^{Warren Farrell}

140. The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

^{Henry Miller}

141. The keystone to justice is the belief that the legal system treats all fairly.

^{Janet Reno}

142. I still gamble, but it’s all legal. I own horses, and I go to watch my horse. I don’t go daily.

^{Pete Rose}

143. Legal discrimination between the sexes is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of society and the pre-scientific beliefs about psychology and physiology. It is time to sweep away these relics of the past and set further generations free of them.

^{Shirley Chisholm}

144. We don’t have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system.

^{Kenneth C. Griffin}

145. I don’t even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just don’t think racial profiling is a particularly good law enforcement tool.

^{Eric Holder}

146. For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.

^{Nursultan Nazarbayev}

147. Every time anybody in Washington talks about legal status, amnesty, anything of that nature, it becomes a magnet that lures people in quickly into the United States.

^{Louie Gohmert}

148. I know ideals aren’t realities, but they do influence reality – social, legal, political, cultural.

^{Roger Scruton}

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

^{Cherie Blair}

150. I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

^{Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn}