Quotes About Legality

Just because something is the law, doesn't make it right.

Abortion is the taking of a life.

Today, cardinal-flower is a legally protected species and should never be picked or removed from the wild.

You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

Progress is only possible in those happy cases where the force of legality has gone far enough to bind the nation together, but not far enough to kill out all varieties and destroy nature's perpetual tendency to change.

Being a 'monopoly' is not illegal, nor is trying to best one's competitors through lower prices, better customer service, greater efficiency, or more rapid innovation.

There is a difference between jaywalking and grand larceny.

I don't think people should be allowed to shoot guns unless they have a license.

The Netherlands is not an immigration country. The annual stream of tens of thousands of newcomers, who largely end up as illegal aliens, must stop.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

There has never been a prosecuted case of slavery. There's no criminality to it. So, it was just like, 'It's over,' and thus, because it was over, and it was never considered 'wrong' in the prosecutable, criminal sense of the word, the country doesn't take it as wrong.

Unjust laws aren't laws at all.

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

A verbal contract is worth about as much as the paper it's written on.

Además de sabio y modesto, fue un gran liberal. Esto, claro, nos enorgullece a quienes creemos que la doctrina liberal es el símbolo de la cultura democrática —la de la tolerancia, el pluralismo, los derechos humanos, la soberanía individual y la legalidad—, el buque insignia de la civilización.

The eighth and last is for small actions, from one to five drachma's, or a little more; for these ought also to be legally determined, but not to be brought before the whole body of the judges.

The law doesn't always know what it's doing. Humans have a far greater instinct for what's right in life than lawyers do.

During his consultations at the Kremlin, [Soviet ambassador Anatoly] Dobrynin had faced shock and incomprehension about Nixon's removal. 'They thought, how can the most powerful person in the United States, the most important person in the world, be legally forced to step down for stealing some documents?' he recalled.

One of the reasons Elton and I entered into our partnership - the first day it became legal in Britain to do so - is that we felt it was an opportunity to protect ourselves with official recognition of our relationship.

I would never do anything that would harm me, and I am totally against using any kind of resource, illicitly, to benefit myself in any way.

How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.

En realidad, nada era ilegal, ya que no existían leyes.

I was concerned about the legality of the program, and so I asked lawyers—of which you got plenty of them in Washington—to determine whether or not I could do this legally. And they came back and said yes.

On immigration, Trump needs an articulate policy that aims to secure the border and keep out illegals while letting in skilled legal workers.