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Quotes About Legal

Jury: A group of twelve people selected to decide who has the better lawyer.
~ Henny Youngman
It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.
~ Henry James Sumner Maine
Every man should kno sumthing ov law--if he knows enuff tew keep out ov it, he iz a prety good lawyer.
~ Henry Wheeler Shaw
In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Innocence is no excuse in the eyes of the Law.
~ Leon Garfield
Not a problem kid or anything like that so when you're in the legal system like that, it's always hard on a person for the first time to go through some things like that.
~ Leonard Little
There was not, and there never had been, a legal government by Europeans anywhere in the Americas. Not by any definition, not even by the Europeans' own definitions and laws. Because no legal government could be established on stolen land.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
The legal system doesn't work. Or more accurately, it doesn't work for anyone except those with the most resources. Not because the system is corrupt. I don't think our legal system (at the federal level, at least) is at all corrupt. I mean simply because the costs of our legal system are so astonishingly high that justice can practically never be done.
~ lessig lawrence
Art is one of those few legal monopolies. If you want to listen to Prince, Mick Jagger doesn't do. Nothing else in the world can satisfy that urge. It's not replaceable, it's not hot swappable. It's not a commodity.
~ Jack Conte
In a typical whistleblower scenario where the inspector general determines a complaint to be credible and urgent, there would be no colorable legal basis for the complaint to not reach Congress.
~ Asha Rangappa
If the goal is to reduce gun deaths and ensure safe, legal firearm usage, activists on both sides should stop fearing data and start embracing it.
~ Leana S. Wen
Economics taught in most of the elite universities are practically useless in my context. My country is dominated by drug economy and a mafia. Textbook economics does not work in my context, and I have very few recommendations from anybody as to how to put together a legal economy.
~ Ashraf Ghani
When I was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I became obsessed with end user license agreements.
~ Annalee Newitz
The unifying factor in my career across investing and entrepreneurship was that the whole time I've basically been an involuntary power user of legal services.
~ Justin Kan
You can collect Facebook data legally with the consent of the Facebook users and the consent of Facebook.
~ Alexander Nix
'Intermediary liability' means that the intermediary, a service that acts as 'intermediate' conduit for the transmission or publication of information, is held liable or legally responsible for everything its users do.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
I have the utmost respect for those who have come to this country legally and have contributed to the great melting pot that is America today. But those who have crossed our borders illegally have broken the law and the law ought to be enforced.
~ Bob Ney
While everyone is entitled to a little vacation now and then, America's top legal officers should adhere to basic measures to increase accountability and restore the public's trust in government.
~ Mike Quigley
I decided on 'Kaagaz' as the title because everything, from birth to death, divorce, to agreement, is done on papers. Without valid papers, a person cannot even prove his identity.
~ Satish Kaushik
Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Providing investors with recourse against governments is valuable.
~ Jose Angel Gurria
State-sanctioned marriage is a civil contract, period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. It is a legal agreement between two parties that testifies to a meeting of minds between those consenting entities. It is not a religious act or rite and so has nothing to do with Adam and Eve or Steve or even Harvey.
~ Harvey Fierstein
We must insist on assimilation - immigration without assimilation is an invasion. We need to tell folks who want to come here, they need to come here legally. They need to learn English, adopt our values, roll up their sleeves and get to work.
~ Bobby Jindal
Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.
~ Jasper Fforde