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" I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays. "

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" I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books. "

" 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

" Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction. "

Lysander Spooner

" Contrary to myth, 'The Feminine Mystique' and feminism did not represent the beginning of the decline of the stay-at-home mother but a turning point that led to much stronger legal rights and 'working conditions' for her. "

Stephanie Coontz

" These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities. "

" I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has. "

Constance Baker Motley

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

" 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. "

" Common sense often makes good law. "

William O. Douglas

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

Honore de Balzac

" Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best. "

" For families to access affordable housing, they often need legal representation that takes their side against abusive landlords. "

Nydia Velazquez

" Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals. "

" 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. "

" Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need. "

" Advertising is legalized lying. "

" When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen. "

" In legal language, a covenant generally denotes an agreement between two or more parties. But in a religious context, a covenant is much more significant. It is a sacred promise with God. He fixes the terms. "

Russell M. Nelson

" You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause. "

" In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country. "

" I love election day, and I love to vote. "

" If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. "

Louis D. Brandeis

" 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. "

" When I was fighting, I would look to excite the crowds with a bolo punch or something taunting. Looking back, they were legal - but not sportsmanlike. I don't recommend another boxer try them. But we looked more to make the robot fights dramatic first and realistic second. "

Sugar Ray Leonard

" The longer you remain silent, the longer you don't turn over documents, a presumption begins to build that you're withholding something. That's human nature. That may not be a legal presumption, but that's a common sense presumption. "

" One with the law is a majority. "

Calvin Coolidge

" Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate. "

" We should encourage people who have lived here peacefully for years to earn legal status over time. "

" Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer. "

" Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union. "

Coretta Scott King