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

Felix Frankfurter

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" Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. "

" It simply is not true that war never settles anything. "

Felix Frankfurter

" Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense. "

W. E. B. Du Bois

" Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute force. One person beats another until the latter will obey him, work for him, if he require it, or do nothing if he require it. "

Lysander Spooner

" Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy. "

Felix Frankfurter

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

" Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms 'public health,' 'public good,' 'public welfare,' and the like. It has no legal meaning, except when used to describe the separate, private, individual rights of a greater or less number of individuals. "

Lysander Spooner

" What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attaches overseas. "

" Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet. "

" The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years. "

" Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns. "

" Through every struggle that I have been confronted with and have been subjected to - solitary confinement, long legal battles, and physically transitioning to the woman I have always been - I manage not only to survive, but to grow, learn, mature, and thrive as a better, more confident person. "

Chelsea Manning

" Food is like a legal drug. You can take 50 cents and walk into the store and buy a Twinkie and get high. And it's killing people. "

" As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth. "

" 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 hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning. "

" Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice. "

" It is right to give every man his due. "

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

" It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system. "

" But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions. "

" Though I don't personally believe that Bitcoin is true money, it should be perfectly legal, and there should be no restrictions on it; there should be no taxes on it. "

" It is legal because I wish it. "

" 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

" To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what you're talking about! I'm able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise. "

Jerry O'Connell

" 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. "

" Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose. "

" Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form. "

Wilhelm von Humboldt

" The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort. "

Felix Frankfurter