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

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" I have always been of opinion that all the political workers should be indifferent and should never bother about the legal fight in the law courts and should boldly bear the heaviest possible sentences inflicted upon them. They may defend themselves but always from purely political considerations and never from a personal point of view. "

" 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. "

" The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government. "

Lysander Spooner

" The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to make obligatory contracts. And his mental capacity to make reasonable contracts is certainly not to be determined by the fact that he is, or is not, twenty-one years of age. "

Lysander Spooner

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

" Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" A potlatch is similar to a court case in that both are prohibitively expensive; both involve lengthy speeches and the vigorous examination and debate of the actions, rights and legal responsibilities of the participants. One has food, singing and spiritual rites; the other, not so much. "

" Punishment is justice for the unjust. "

Saint Augustine

" Swift justice demands more than just swiftness. "

" The acid test of any legal system is not the greatness or the grandeur of its ideal concepts, but whether, in fact, it is able to produce order and justice. "

" The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, they're going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him. "

" Law is born from despair of human nature. "

Jose Ortega y Gasset

" What can you do if they have slapped you with a legal notice? You have to reply. For all you know, they have taken you to jail or something. "

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

" One with the law is a majority. "

Calvin Coolidge

" Common sense often makes good law. "

William O. Douglas

" Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause. "

" The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. "

Abraham Lincoln

" 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

" While Texas women have the right to safe, legal abortion, in reality there are already very few facilities in Texas to provide this essential care. In 2008, 92 percent of Texas counties had no abortion provider. "

" Legal and bureaucratic impediments to surveillance should be removed. "

" I got some cash from agents. I've talked to the NCAA. I think that should be legal. I want some money, too; everybody else is making money. I want to go on dates. I want to go buy myself some new suits. I want to buy myself some new sneakers, and I paid the agents back. "

Charles Barkley

" I mentioned it yesterday: I'm one of these people that - I don't - like, on the abortion issue, it's not something that - I'm very uncomfortable talking about it. I'm not gonna kid you. It's a very uncomfortable thing. I think that it's a legal issue. Definitely a legal issue. It's been decided upon by our Supreme Court. "

Michael T. Flynn

" The memory of the 146 people who lost their lives in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire stands as a reminder that legal protections and workplace safety standards were won through a long struggle for social justice and at great human cost. "

Eric Schneiderman

" Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. "

" Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

" In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal. "

" What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong, what's legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral. "

Lisa Scottoline

" Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it. "

" There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No one's illegal. They should just be able to come. "