Quotes About Legal

The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him.

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

Most certainly prize-fighting is not half as brutalizing or demoralizing as many forms of big business and of the legal work carried on in connection with big business.

Through the General Land Office and other government bureaus, the public resources were being handled and disposed of in accordance with the small considerations of petty legal formalities, instead of for the large purposes of constructive development, and the habit of deciding, whenever possible, in favor of private interests against the public welfare was firmly fixed.

You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.

2003 case before the Supreme Court in which Nike claimed that it had the First Amendment right to lie in its corporate marketing, a variation on the First Amendment right of free speech. (Except in certain contract and law enforcement/court situations, it's perfectly legal for human persons to lie in the United States.

Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing.

I saw the legal system close up, and I understood that it was built by lawyers for lawyers, and unless you have an attorney to navigate it, you're not going to be successful.

If a person is seriously injured as a result of someone else's negligence, then they are entitled to compensation.

I will never forget January 22, 1973, the day seven members of our highest court ripped up the Constitution.

One of the main arguments that I make in my new book, 'The Great Degeneration,' is that the rule of law in the U.S. is becoming the rule of lawyers.

Slavery in New Hampshire was never legally abolished, unless Abraham Lincoln did it. The State itself has not ever pronounced any emancipation edict.

I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know.

I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk.

Good lawyers win so-so lawsuits. Great lawyers can win lawsuits in which you have little or no chance to win.

We've seen unscrupulous legal firms racking up legal aid bills for fabricated accusations. And we've seen attempts by them to pursue cases that stand no chance of a conviction, putting those accused through hell.

No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it.

Ahora se daba cuenta de que el genio de aquellos que habían redactado la Constitución consistía en prevenir la debilidad de carácter del hombre y la presencia constante del mal en el mundo y convertir la libertad individual en la realidad legal a la que el país tenía que volver una y otra vez.

ABAC'TOR, noun [Latin from abigo, ab and ago, to drive.] In law, one that feloniously drives away or steals a herd or numbers of cattle at once, in distinction from one that steals a sheep or two.

I think, legally speaking, there's a very solid case for impeaching every American president since the Second World War. They've all been either outright war criminals or involved in serious war crimes.) The