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" Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions. "

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" Major miscarriages of justice have occurred because of the absence of proper legal representation. "

" So many people who deal with sexual harassment don't have the means to file lawsuits or to get legal representation or legal advice. "

" So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech. "

" Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18. "

" To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General's office is the honor of a lifetime. As you know, this is an office with a long and rich tradition, not only of extraordinary legal skill but also of extraordinary professionalism and integrity. That is due, in large measure, to the people who have led it. "

" As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't. "

Jay Alan Sekulow

" I couldn't swear that I believed in the law - or in the American legal system. "

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

" I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get. "

Rosie O'Donnell

" Punishment is justice for the unjust. "

Saint Augustine

" If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause. "

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

" I was a fugitive, taking risks with my life. I chose that. I chose to be a volunteer to go to Guatemala when they were having their earthquake, to help people with a team of doctors. "

" To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral. "

" All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted, which is privacy and non-harassment. "

" I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life. "

" Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law. "

" The majority of people were always sitting in the stands. When I find people who are willing to go against the grain, who are willing to make tremendous sacrifices to change an unjust situation - that's what blows my mind out. "

" Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism? "

Frederic Bastiat

" More law, less justice. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions. "

" I don't have an issue with whether - from a legal standpoint, with whether or not government can impose the ultimate punishment on people. We do it in capital cases. Police officers shoot fleeing felons. "

" Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

" Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration. "

" 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. "

" I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. "

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

" I had to understand the whole bounty hunting thing, because we don't have that in Venezuela. Nothing similar at all, at least not legal. "

" People do not win people fights. Lawyers do. "

Norman Ralph Augustine

" In the U.S., you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you; but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get it without showing you anything. They may not even have to give the company a search warrant. "

Richard Stallman

" I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo. "