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" I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age. "

Johnnie Cochran

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" Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity. "

" We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. "

" Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. "

" To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him. "

" A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance. "

Herbert Spencer

" It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. "

" The U.S. immigration system is the most generous in the world, providing each year more green cards for legal permanent residence with a clear path to full citizenship than all the rest of the nations of the world combined. "

" As legal residents, immigrants would contribute more in taxes, spend more at our businesses, start companies of their own and create more jobs. Immigration is not a problem for us to solve but an opportunity for America to seize. "

" Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character. "

" Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do. "

" As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge. "

" I've always said that at the end of the day, on a legal issue, I think a wise old woman and a wise old man are going to reach the same conclusion. "

Sandra Day O'Connor

" The military tribunals currently underway at Guantanamo Bay create a clear legal process, as affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, for adjudicating the cases of these terrorists, when possible. Those efforts would be severely undercut by moving the detainees to the United States. "

" Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people. "

" You see these casting directors' lists of characters, and they're all boxed in. Twenties is the hot girlfriend, thirties you can still be hot but moving swiftly to hot mum. Forties, you're the legal person in a pantsuit. Then, once you reach your fifties, you're positively elderly. "

" The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for the predation of private property; it renders certain, secure, and relatively 'peaceful' the lifeline of the parasitic caste in society. "

Murray Rothbard

" I love the new legal immigrants; they want their kids to be safe just like I do. "

" Sure, our legal system has its flaws, but it is the best legal system in the world. "

Kimberly Guilfoyle

" All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing. "

" To some lawyers, all facts are created equal. "

Felix Frankfurter

" If it doesn't fit, you must acquit. "

Johnnie Cochran

" Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior. "

" Because it started as an offshoot of al Qaeda in Iraq, ISIL has long been subject to U.N. sanctions, and all countries have a legal obligation to freeze its assets and prohibit its business dealings. But countries around the world need to do more to make these sanctions work. "

" Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution. "

" In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions. "

Constance Baker Motley

" If I were in the middle of some kind of legal issue, I would get in my car and drive to Fenway. I'd get to the game early and sit in my seats and say, 'I'm home, I'm happy, and I love it here.' It was my therapy. "

" One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York. "

" You can't learn everything you need to know legally. "

" If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them. "