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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
- Thomas Jefferson
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
- Robert Frost
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
- Abbie Hoffman
A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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.
- Sonia Sotomayor
The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society, and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand support for marriage - to insist that it is privileged both culturally and legally.
- Nancy Pearcey
I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.
- Tony Campolo
We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.
- Dan Quayle
It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united.
- Thomas Jefferson
The covenant language in the Bible is not cold, legal language, but relational language.
- Mark Dever
Just being an obedient Christian is increasingly becoming a social, political, legal issue...
- John Piper
I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.
- Elton John