Quotes About Legality

We believe in rule of law not rule by decree.

Phone tapping is bad and should not happen.

Just because you can buy an exploding target, does not mean that it is legal to mix and explode.

I refuse to watch illegal aliens be unlawfully flown and relocated to our beautiful states on the taxpayer's dollar. This is why I introduced the No-Fly for Illegals Act.

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.

succession means legitimacy as well as power.

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes.

It's not my fault that it's illegal to marry multiple men at the same time; that's like saying that a gay couple isn't as serious as a straight couple because the straight couple is married, at the same time you make it impossible for the gay couple to marry.

law is enforced the way the law is written; it's not about true justice, it's about interpretation of the law and who has the best lawyer.

Well what would you expect?" she sputtered. "They can call themselves privateers, but we all know they're just pirates with papers.

Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.

I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Any law which runs counter to the good of man is no law at all.

At the end of the day, though, the entire basis for consent laws doesn't make sense. We're not old enough to decide if we don't want a baby, but we are old enough to have one?

When Clinton took office, members of that community still faced a host of legal and cultural barriers. Sodomy laws banned same-sex acts, even in the privacy of one's bedroom, in more than half of the country's states plus the nation's capital.

What if we move to a path to legalization? How do we reconcile that with justice and fairness with those that come here legally?

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

We should all have the legal right to purchase health insurance from any insurance company in any state, and we should be able use that insurance wherever we live. Health insurance should be portable.

I was married for a little while. I chose to be married. Then I chose not to be. But in the state of Maryland, I could... That should be the case for all Marylanders.

Law in Ukraine is not black and white; it is shades of gray.