Legal Quotes

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents.

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.

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 think the issue is that Americans traveling abroad if gotten into legal problems should have access to a fair trial and an impartial tribunal.

The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases.

And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.