Legal Quotes - Page 2

They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.

Discovering the context

This quote humorously suggests that in certain situations, individuals may require someone to serve as a master of ceremonies or to deliver speeches rather than a lawyer. It implies that the issue at hand does not necessitate legal expertise but rather effective communication or public speaking skills.

Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.

The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial... -Clarence Darrow

The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

Discovering the context

This quote presents the idea that trial lawyers, who argue cases before juries, are the epitome of what it means to be a true lawyer. It implies that the adversarial process and the presentation of arguments to juries are essential aspects of the legal profession.

I worked as a lawyer; as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college; and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policema... -Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Discovering the context

This quote humorously suggests that a police officer's uniform, worn during a successful lawsuit, is the true mark of success in legal proceedings. It employs irony to emphasize the unexpected or unconventional nature of the perceived measure of success in this context.

Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity.

I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don't permit any additional landfill permits for the time being, so we don't exacerbate the problem.

I'm coming out with my line of shoes and my very first shoe is called 'The Nethia.' How we came up with the name is that my legal name is Linnethia and we shortened it.

I feel like there was justice. It was served through the legal system you know. Everything that I endured. It was all worth it.

Mr. Trump wants citizens of other nations to know that there is a legal process that needs to be followed, and that that process is only way to come to America.

For years, the Bush Administration eviscerated all the military and legal structures that were designed to separate the innocent from the guilty in the 'Global War on Terror.'

With the support and dedication from employees at every level of the company, we've been successful in expanding supplier diversity in many areas, including traditionally challenging areas such as construction services, legal and professional services.

It is true that I am one of the co-authors of 'Nudge,' and I am a behavioral economist, but it does not mean that everything we write about in that book is behavioral economics, nor does it mean that my co-author, the distinguished legal scholar Cass Sunstein, is a behavioral economist.

In my book, I detail the critical information we obtained from al Qaeda terrorists after they became compliant following a short period of enhanced interrogation. I have no doubt that that interrogation was legal, necessary and saved lives.

I'm overly excited to finally announce this amazing global partnership deal back home with EMI Music. I know I have mentioned doing music in the past but for legal reasons I was not in a position to release any new music.

The law has no compassion. And justice is administ... -Christopher Darden

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

Discovering the context

This quote portrays the law as devoid of compassion and suggests that justice, as dispensed by the legal system, is also devoid of compassion. It implies a perception that legal proceedings and outcomes may be driven by legal principles rather than empathy or understanding of individual circumstances.

Relying on the face might be human nature - even babies prefer to look at attractive people. But, of course, judging someone based on the geometry of his features is, from a moral and legal standpoint, no better than judging him based on the color of his skin.

Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.

We live in a welfare state society - one that is already bloated and overburdened. We cannot continue to absorb and support an endless stream of people who will inevitably need legal residents to subsidize their lives.

People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called mad, and sometimes they're called fiction writers. I always feel lucky that I live in a culture where fiction writing is legal and not seen as pathology.

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

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

Discrimination in virtually every aspect of political, economic, and social life is now perfectly legal if you've been labeled a felon.

If they lose their legal basis for owning a .cn domain, google.cn would cease to exist, or if it continued to exist, it would be illegal, and doing anything blatantly illegal in China puts their employees at serious risk.

With respect to the legal justifications or the policies relating to the treatment of detainees, I was not aware of any issues on that or the legal memos that subsequently came out until the summer, sometime in 2004, when there started to be news reports on that.

I'm a child of immigrants. That is the history of this country. Immigration is good and important for our country. Legal immigration needs to really be modernized.