Quotes About Legal

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

The striking silence about duties in many contemporary discussions of rights no doubt reflects immense cultural shifts from a world centred on social and ethical duties, to one in which legal requirements and their enforcement by states are seen as fundamental, and in which individuals are commonly seen as having rights – but little is said about their duties.

The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe.

God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.

Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.

Divorce is an epidemic that causes as much pain as any disease.

The funny thing about getting married in America was that we needed to get a blood test before they'd give us a licence. I wouldn't have been surprised if the bloke from the lab had called back and said, 'Mr Osbourne, we appear to have found some blood in your alcohol.'

Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.

The only people that should vote should be legal.

When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.

The insanity trial date was set for January 13, 1992.

You will shoot, but you will not learn how to shoot in a CCW class. Rather, you will be given instruction on the law and how it pertains to carrying a firearm.

No. She told me she was going to marry him, to get French nationality . . . She was obsessed with getting a nationality...

speakerphone on the table, and another twenty lawyers from across the country had dialed in.

It is a peculiar hallmark of the American economy that you can produce a dangerous product and effectively off-load any legal liability for whatever destruction that product may cause by pointing to the individual responsibility of the consumer

against the Sacklers were twisting the facts to scapegoat her clients, she argued. What was their crime? All they had done was sell a drug that was perfectly legal—a product

The legal aphorism is that when the law is on your side, argue the law; when the facts are on your side, argue the facts; when neither is on your side, attack the witness.)

I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.

In this life and death case, I felt Mrs. Schiavo should receive the fullest due process from our legal system.

As long as the government can arbitrarily decide which substances are legal and which are illegal, then those who remain behind bars for illegal substances are political prisoners

but I'm a trial lawyer, damn it. In the legal system, not everything is black-and-white. I make my living in the gray.

Until I come up with something better, the hammer defense." "Huh?" "Classic legal strategy, Nash. If the law is on your side, hammer the law. If the facts are on your side, hammer the facts. If neither is on your side, hammer the table.

When there's a dead body in the room, you never, ever answer cops' questions without your lawyer present. Which is to say, your lawyer answers the questions by saying, "We have nothing to say at this time.

These days, I try to act with integrity, but I'm a trial lawyer, damn it. In the legal system, not everything is black-and-white. I make my living in the gray.