Quotes About Legality

Laws are inoperative in war

Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth.

Megaupload was a dual-use technology. You can use it for good things, and you can use it for bad things. If someone sends something illegal in an envelope through your postal service, you don't shut down the post office. If someone speeds with the car he just bought, you don't go to the car manufacturer and say, 'Hey, we're shutting you down.'

Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.

I do not agree that the court can or should redefine marriage.

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

Man's laws cannot make moral what God has declared immoral

If two men or two women can marry, then there is no way a court could deny three men and two women or any combination thereof.

With you, it seems to be merely a question of time. The legality of self-destruction—the "rightness" or "wrongness" of it—seems to have much to do with how quickly the deed is done, as well as who is doing it. The faster the death, the more "wrong" it seems to be. The slower the death, the more it slips into "okayness.

In Uganda, for example, where abortion is illegal and sex education focuses on abstinence, the abortion rate is more than twice the rate in the United States and four times that of western Europe, where both abortion and contraception are legal and widely available. â– 

In our administration, we're going to follow the law, and any policy that we move forward will fall well within the law and the Arizona Constitution.

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

We have to be a nation of laws.

They don't cover what to do with a dead hooker. That's a whole different program. Political science, I think.

There has always been a certain conflict between justice and the law. HERBERT PELL

La ilegitimidad es algo de lo que tenemos que hablar en términos de no tenerla»

In the global media community, "intolerance" does not denote so much China's mass incarceration of Muslim Uighurs in reeducation camps, or destruction of Tibetan culture, or strangulation of Hong Kong's democracy, or systemic racism shown African students and resident workers in China. Instead, America's purported sin is occasional consideration of recalibrating its open-borders policies and requiring legality before entering the country.

Lex malla, lex nulla. A bad law is no law.

For example, in the state of California, it is illegal to have sexual intercourse with someone under the age of 18; yet, in the same state, having sex with a dead body (i.e., necrophilia), does not have a specific criminal code within the penal system (Hickey, 2005).

Suddenly, I began to wonder: If one in three or four American women had an abortion at some time in her life--a common statistical estimate, even in those days of illegality-- then why, WHY should this single surgical procedure be deemed a criminal act?

The myth of the pioneer family or lone frontiersman venturing into virgin forest to hack out a meager homestead is belied by the thoroughly organized commercial value of such ventures. The main figure in the settlement of the west was the land company, which frequently operated not only on the edge of civilization but on the edge of legality as well.

It is just that there be law, but law is not justice

Zionism demands a publicly recognized and legally secured homeland in Palestine for the Jewish people. This platform is unchangeable.

The 'anchor baby' thing needs to be fixed... Anchor babies are an unconstitutional declaration of citizenship to those born of non-Americans. It's wrong, and it's immoral.