339 private quotes tagged legal

“Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information.”— Roger Wicker

“If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.”— Felix Adler

“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

“So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.”— Neil Gaiman

“Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.”— Calvin Coolidge

“Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon.”— Nick Clegg

“Coercion may prevent many transgressions but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.”— Wilhelm von Humboldt

“In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.”— Bob Ney

“Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.”— Honore de Balzac

“I don't plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were.”— Nick Johnson

“People spend so much time in their cars, and it's a legal way to have fun by speeding a little bit or testing yourself a little bit, and you get to invest in your car. For some people, it becomes their baby.”— Jordana Brewster

“I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.”— Tony Campolo

“When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.”— Ron Wyden

“I'm overly excited to finally announce this amazing global partnership deal back home with EMI Music. I know I have mentioned doing music in the past but for legal reasons I was not in a position to release any new music.”— Melanie Brown

“Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.”— Robert E. Lee

“A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.”— George Herbert

“The trouble with law is lawyers.”— Clarence Darrow

“I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.”— Sienna Miller

“Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”— Charles Lamb

“He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.”— Charles Lamb

“All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.”— Joseph Conrad

“It is legal because I wish it.”— Louis XIV

“Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.”— George Herbert

“You can't learn everything you need to know legally.”— John Irving

“I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.”— James Joyce