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Quotes About Legality

Even though Mr. Trump can give his campaign as much of his own money as he wants to, he can't ask other people to front the money for him and promise to pay them back later without reporting the arrangement in a timely fashion to the Federal Election Commission.
~ Neal Katyal
Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
~ Ziggy Marley
Was I involved in selling drivers licenses to people illegally? Hell no I wasn't. Would I have tolerated it? Hell no.
~ George Ryan
We can't deny the financial toll illegal immigrants take on our communities.
~ Dick Mountjoy
In Sweden, it is illegal to name your baby Metallica, Superman, Veranda, Ikea or Elvis.
~ Scott Matthews
Mucho es lo que cabe decir del miedo a la muerte. Nos mueve buscar seguridad, salud e incluso paz. Nos mueve a dar cobijo a las personas y seres a los que queremos, y a proteger instituciones y sistemas legales preciados para nosotros.
~ Martha C. Nussbaum
It may be true that the law cannot change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself This is difference made legal. By the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. This is difference made legal. By the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. This is difference made legal. By the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow that it is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was legal and everything the Hungarian freedom fighers did in Hungary was illegal. It was illegal to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can put law on paper but that don't make it right.
~ August Wilson
I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.
~ Stephen Hawking
Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another. I'm more than fine with breaking a law if it disagrees with my values and morals.
~ Ashly Lorenzana
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
~ Emma Goldman
A law is valuable, not because it is a law, but because there is right in it.
~ beecher henry ward vi
you can be unethical and still be legal.
~ Ben Mezrich
A woman's right to choose takes precedence over all—even if that means crushing the skull of a living child and sucking its brains into a sink.
~ Ben Shapiro
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
~ Benjamin Franklin
As we continue to work to pass comprehensive immigration reform, we must take action to stop these predators who are exploiting immigrants attempting to play by the rules.
~ Bill Foster
Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.
~ John Ashcroft
Modi government has not flouted any rule or regulation to help anyone.
~ Gautam Adani
But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules.
~ Richard Perle