Quotes About Legality

The law says you have the right to hold a nigger, but begging the law's pardon, it lies. . . Is everything right because the law allows it? Suppose they'd pass a law taking away your liberty and making you a slave?

Is every thing right because the law allows it ? Suppose they'd pass a law taking away your liberty and making you a slave?

An unjust law is no law at all.

Helping the terminally ill to consciously end their lives is a crime, while denying health care to the living is seen as sound fiscal practice.

But I also knew that the U.S. Supreme Court had upheld the legality of the police's lying to a suspect if the lie would reasonably be seen as such by an innocent person.

One reason abortion remained illegal was because it was so safe.

The mere fact that a group of people in the past agreed to a constitution is not enough to make that constitution just.

Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Thanks to this ruling, states now had the right to perform surgery on healthy citizens against their will—a liberty never before extended in any advanced country. Yet the case attracted almost no attention.

Slavery was legal. Japanese interment was legal in this country. Segregation was legal.

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

You can be moral without following the law, and you can be immoral while following the law.

How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.

You can call someone a lousy writer. You can say you hate their book. You can even call a person 'white trash' but you can't go on television and slander a person's career. It's illegal, even on reality shows.

Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.

Every person deserves to be treated fairly under the law.

Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land', in most instances they're not even law.

If the United States has normalized relations with Cuba, why would we treat illegal immigrants from that nation any different than those from other countries? It is time we level the playing field and end the outdated, preferential treatment for Cubans.

Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement.

the law says there's no such thing as a false opinion.

The beauty of American law is you cannot slander anybody who is dead. This is not true in all countries.

The law is not a ball of twine, to be picked at and unraveled until there is nothing left of it.

Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.

Successful crimes alone are justified.