“All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.”
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“When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.”
“Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.”
“If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.”
“Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.”
“The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.”
“Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.”
“Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.”
“A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.”
“The trouble with law is lawyers.”
“Justice delayed is justice denied.”
“Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”
“He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.”
“All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.”
“It is legal because I wish it.”
“Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.”