The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
I drink, you drink. Hell, if marijuana was legal, I'd appear in a commercial for that too.
Why should it be illegal to sell something that's perfectly legal to give away?
It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse their 'other half.
Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't.
One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract.
The state is a vast enterprise for declaring all sorts of things legal for itself that would be illegal for us.
I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents.
Creativity may well be the last legal unfair competitive advantage we can take to run over the competition.
I have great concern, but my concern is probably not what most people would think it would be. My concern is why is our faith being targeted as part of this inquiry when there are laws on the books and there is legal jurisdiction any time there is abuse in financial handling?
Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus of what we regard as underpinnings of decent society, such as the idea that we don't approve of slavery or discrimination on the grounds of race or sex, that we respect free speech and the rights of the individual. All of these things that have become second nature to our morals today owe very little to religion, and mostly have been won in opposition to the teeth of religion.
Better think while it's still legal.
No controlling legal authority
I'm concerned with protecting the legal system.
I have complete confidence in the American people and our legal traditions and the prosecutors, the tough prosecutors. . . who specialize in terrorism.
We've got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Let's create a new legal system, so they'll have their day in court.
If we want to change that status quo, we might have to work outside of those rules because the legal pathways available to us have been structured precisely to make sure we don’t make any substantial change.
This is what I say to the most conservative person that's so terrified of gay marriage becoming legal. Just because the state says it's legal, it's not like God's going to let them into Heaven. So you can still sleep sound every night knowing that goal line defense is up at the pearly gates.
Tsars and slaves, the intelligent and the obtuse, publicans and pharisees all have an identical legal and moral right to honor the memory of the deceased as they see fit, without regard for anyone else's opinion and without the fear of hindering one another.