Quotes About Legality

I don't want to take away deferred status from anyone who has it, but I also didn't want to send the message that it is OK to come here illegally.

One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York.

Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration's current policy affects that legality; 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government.

When I was initially charged I still thought I was not guilty because I had followed the rules.

When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal is illegal.

there are stratagems in law as well as war.

A lei não decide se a coisa é errada, apenas se é legal.

Who decides the rightness? That is the question that can never be answered satisfactorily. The law doesn't decide if it's wrong, only if it's legal.

It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on murder must be killed!

A fine is a tax for doing something wrong. A tax is a fine for doing something right.

The obvious point of Conrad's cartoon is the weirdness of a world where guns are legal, despite the harm they can do, while VCRs (and circumvention technologies) are illegal. Flash: No one ever died from copyright circumvention. Yet the law bans circumvention technologies absolutely, despite the potential that they might do some good, but permits guns, despite the obvious and tragic harm they do.

When the end is lawful the means are also lawful

There's no such thing as semi-legal.

Unlike most traditional, season-long fantasy sports sites, which make most of their money from administrative fees and advertising, FanDuel and DraftKings take a cut of every bet. That is what bookies do, and it is illegal in New York.

So we had the classic Italian compromise, a theater of strife when all was actually agreed. Anarchy is rare in Italy, but legality is always up for renegotiation, especially if you can present yourself as hard done by

Robert Bork used the same example to make just this argument. In a democracy, he argued, the majority has a boundless power to outlaw whatever conduct it finds objectionable, including conduct that takes place in private, harms nobody, and is not witnessed or overheard by anyone else.

Does autumn enter legally or is it an underground season? Entra el Otono legalmente o es una estacion clandestina?

I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink.

clear parallel between Francoist judicial practice and that of the Nazis – in that both, unlike the Soviet case, overturned previous liberal jurisprudence/practice.

the rule of law.

But listen, listen . . . a mind-set that's caught up in, even imprisoned by legality and correctness of form . . . what is that way of thinking if not Druhástranian? To be Druhástranian is to be dissatisfied with one's condition until one can find some official personage to sign off on it.

Law never made men a whit more just.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

I don't blame anybody for using the tax code to their advantage.