Quotes About Legal

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

Lawsuit, n. a machine which you go into as a pig and come out as a sausage.

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

Whiskey to himself "God, please let this kid be legal, just to make that whole wood thing less disgusting

Absinthe is legal today in Europe, the United States, and many places around the world. Some governments regulate the amount of thujone that may be present in the finished product—this in spite of the fact that many other culinary plants, including sage, are even higher in thujone and aren't regulated at all.

In the middle of the tournament I turn eighteen. The tournament director rolls a cake out to center court, and everyone sings. I've never liked birthdays. No one ever took note of my birthday when I was growing up. But this feels different. I'm legal, everyone keeps saying. In the eyes of the law, you're a grown-up. Then the law is an ass.

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.

John Marshall has made his decision: now let him enforce it!

FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.

I remember when I took Quentin Tarantino with me to a very private screening of the documentary 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,' which shows some of the legal irregularities of his case. I was involved by the film, and it was an amazing experience to see people weep at the end of it.

Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity.

A free and open Internet should not have to be weighed down by legal challenges - its dynamism is essential to our economy.

I think marriage initially involves a lot of people who have nothing to do with your relationship, because it's a legally binding contract, and that has a weight to it.

We must fix our broken immigration system. That means stopping illegal immigration. And it means welcoming properly vetted legal immigrants, regardless of their race or religion. Just like we have for centuries.

We live in a welfare state society - one that is already bloated and overburdened. We cannot continue to absorb and support an endless stream of people who will inevitably need legal residents to subsidize their lives.

I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.

Russia has gone way beyond its legal powers to use bases in the Crimea.

The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art.

I'm a lawyer, I practiced for many years, and so I believe in the Fifth Amendment.

I practise law almost every day. Exclusively criminal work these days.

Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.

I always look for judges who respect precedent.