Quotes About Legality

I don't care what anyone thinks. I only care about the law. I only care about the constitution.

One of the worst things about breaking the law is that it puts one at odds with an indeterminate number of other people. This is among the many corrosive effects of having unjust laws: They tempt peaceful and (otherwise) honest people to lie so as to avoid being punished for behavior that is ethically blameless.

Indeed, what is startling about the notion of a victimless crime is that even when the behavior in question is genuinely victimless, its criminality is still affirmed by those who are eager to punish it. It is in such cases that the true genius lurking behind many of our laws stands revealed. The idea of a victimless crime is nothing more than a judicial reprise of the Christian notion of sin.

Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.

I passionately love liberty, legality, respect for rights, but not democracy. That is what I find in the depth of my soul.

Lawyer – One skilled in the circumvention of the law.

If I am an American who has developed an Oxycontin addiction, as soon as my doctor realizes I'm an addict, she has to cut me off. She is allowed to prescribe to treat only my physical pain—not my addiction. Indeed, if she prescribes just to meet my addiction, she will face being stripped of her license and up to twenty-five years in jail84 as a common drug dealer—just

[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.

The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.

The law is not concerned with trifles.

Where no law is, there is no transgression.

De minimis non curat lex [The law is not concerned with trifles].

if you surrounded murder with enough forms and procedures, if you could convince yourself that it was an absolute necessity, then ultimately it would not be murder at all.

Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.

Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the sentence or judgment of his peers, is only carrying that sentence or judgment into execution.

The bottom line is: If any government has a rule that would legally allow it to punish people for things that don't deserve punishment, then that law should be scrapped or changed.

Once you secure that border, then we can start doing an analysis of what we are going to do with all of the folks that got here illegally.

States should pass laws making it illegal to own or trade wild animals; the phony 'educational' permits that many private owners have used to skirt those laws should be eliminated.

I'm thankful for not ever taking anything illegal.

The fantastic is always a break in the acknowledged order, an irruption of the inadmissible within the changeless everyday legality

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.

The law is whatever is successfully argued and plausibly maintained

use of government that enriched one group of people at the expense of another, and which would be illegal if private individuals tried to carry it out themselves.

The distinction between war and nonwar may be arbitrary, but we want it to be sharp and clear, because many actions that are considered both immoral and illegal in peacetime are permissible—even praiseworthy—in wartime. Recall