Quotes About Legality

It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.

The law is an opinion with a gun.

A Supreme Court decision does not establish a "supreme law of the land" that is binding on all persons and parts of government, henceforth and forevermore.

A government of laws, and not of men

Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.

la justicia no es sólo cuestión de fondo. Sobre todo, es cuestión de forma.

I think," Philander Knox teased, "it would be better to keep your action free from any taint of legality.

there is very little connection between law and justice.

The biggest problem with the deficit is programs that are unconstitutional and wasteful.

We cannot sustain illegal immigration in perpetuity. It will not work for our country.

A large part of the income of the 'Big 5' accountancy and consultancy firms derives from tax avoidance schemes which flourish in the name of tax planning. Their legality has agitated courts in India and abroad for a long time.

At some point, the law has to command respect, and there is a lawful way to change it.

No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.

The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.

The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question about the need to secure our borders.

So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal.

We are quite sure the Pirate Bay is legal in Sweden.

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

If nobody's losing money or getting hurt, the law doesn't give a fuck.

America is ruled by laws, not mobs!