Legal Quotes - page 4

Principle I : Legal rights are presumptive rights. (William Ernest Hocking)
My legal wife is to me dead; the only ecclesiastical authority I recognise pronounces me free; the attacks and threats of men do not disturb me. I am acting according to a clear conscience, and am doing hurt to no man. For my conduct, I will answer to my maker. View quote
William the Silent
What is the true and original root of Dutch aversion to British rule? It is the abiding fear and hatred of the movement that seeks to place the native on a level with the white man ... the Kaffir is to be declared the brother of the European, to be constituted his legal equal, to be armed with political rights. View quote
Winston Churchill
Since I see all the birds are flown, I do expect from you that you will send them unto me as soon as they return hither. But, I assure you on the word of a king, I never did intend any force, but shall proceed against them in a legal and fair way, for I never meant any other. View quote
Charles I of England
The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin's Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament. View quote
Bernard Bailyn
One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop. Marijuana can be grown almost anywhere, with little difficulty. It might not be easily marketable by major corporations. Tobacco is quite another story. View quote
Noam Chomsky
Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the ethical right to literally purchase the copyright of a citizen's potential contribution to society. In a democracy they should not have the legal right to silence the quasi-totality of the functioning élite in order to satisfy a managerial taste for control and secrecy. View quote
John Ralston Saul
National income is defined as the sum of all income available to the residents of a given country in a given year, regardless of the legal classification of that income. View quote
Thomas Piketty
Whenever I stumble over my own feet, or blurt out a thought that makes no sense at all, or leave the house wearing one pattern too many, I always think, It's okay, I'm from New Jersey. I love New Jersey, because it's not just an all-purpose punch line, but probably a handy legal defense, as in, "Yes, I shot my wife because I thought she was Bigfoot, but I'm from New Jersey.”. View quote
Paul Rudnick
To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands. View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
When the commander in chief of a nation finds it necessary to order employees of the government or agencies of the government to do things that would technically break the law, he has to be able to declare it legal in order for them to do that. (Ronald Reagan)
Political and legal institutions play a central role in setting the environment that can nurture prosperity and economic growth. View quote
Angus Deaton
No government proposal more complicated than "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private" ever works. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
The scheme: shell companies controlled by in turn by other shall companies based offshore, run by legal firms through trusts, in an infinite series of steps that make it impossible to track down the true account holder. View quote
Roberto Saviano
Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie. View quote
William Landay
Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty. View quote
Joseph Rotblat
There comes a time when a human being has to either face evil or admit to allowing it. Abortion is legal in the United States, but it should not be celebrated or used as a political tool. Viable babies are human beings. View quote
Bill O'Reilly
I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about legal and acceptable. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
Mastery of the German language and the acceptance of our legal system has to become part of the criteria for naturalization. View quote
Alice Schwarzer
I think it's very healthy to use journalistic and legal techniques to investigate the evidence for and against Christianity and other faith systems. (Lee Strobel)
Globalization is a great thing, but it needs a legal framework in which to blossom. View quote
Loretta Napoleoni
It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world. View quote
Henry James Sumner Maine
The principle of my political life .... is, that all ameliorations and improvements in political institutions can be obtained by persevering in a perfectly peaceable and legal course, and cannot be obtained by forcible means, or if they could be got by forcible means, such means create more evils than they cure, and leave the country worse than they found it. View quote
Daniel O'Connell
But then, in his lifetime, Halt had often ignored what was technically legal. Technicalities didn't appeal to him. All too often, they simply got in the way of doing the right thing. View quote
John Flanagan