Quotes About Legality

That's right: In the United States of America today, it is illegal for playing-by-the-rules, state-registered medical cannabis patients nationwide to bear arms. Whacked on OxyContin? Shoot away.

no correspondence is intended between any institutions or characters in this book and any real institutions or people living, dead, or wandering the night in ghostly torment.

The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.

There is no meaningful or persuasive constitutional distinction between semiautomatic handguns and semiautomatic rifles.

'Legality' is a mad phrase to use when it comes to the founding of nations. Australia was founded on illegality. For the Americans to go in and dispossess the American Indians was illegal.

Up until the point that you're a citizen, we wanna continue to make sure we understand who you are and why you're here.

At least in Russia, you cannot just go and tap into someone's phone conversation without a warrant issued by court. That's more or less the way a civilized society should go about fighting terrorism.

You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.

Our Supreme Court has been very clear that the government can't just simply say something and make it so.

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The laws of men are not infallible.

The law compells no man to impossible things. The argument ab impossibili is forcible in law.

The law doth never enforce a man to doe a vaine thing.

Jimmy Carr is a very nice man who works incredibly hard and has donated loads of money to good causes. He's done absolutely nothing illegal.

Sound money and free banking are not impossible; they are merely illegal.

Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law.

Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.

You give us long enough to argue over something and we will bring you in proofs to show that the Ten Commandments should never be ratified.

the law has neither eyes, nor ears, nor bowels of humanity; and it turns into marble the hearts of all those that are nursed in its principles.

That which is not just is not law.

It's so much easier to define crime than it is to put your finger on justice.

The Law and the Lawgiver are one.

Either the law exists, or it does not.