Legal Quotes

The law is supposed to be the framework for a fair society, though it does not always live up to that promise. These quotes explore justice, rights, the legal system, and the ongoing tension between the letter of the law and its spirit.

“I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.”

Steven Wright

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“Driving at high speed where safe and legal is part of my life. As well as a higher top speed I wanted even better stability in my FX and that meant work on the aerodynamics.”

Sebastian Vettel

“I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.”

Sidney Poitier

“Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.”

Will Rogers

“In law, nothing is certain but the expense.”

Samuel Butler

“I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.”

Bill Frist

“I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.”

Tony Campolo

“Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.”

Plato

“These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.”

Michael Bloomberg

“It's impossible to walk a block in Miami, in Los Angeles, San Antonio without running into someone who is being deeply impacted by a broken legal immigration system.”

Marco Rubio

“The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.”

John Clayton

“Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.”

Tim Berners-Lee

“Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.”

P. J. O'Rourke

“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.”

NeNe Leakes

“Advertising is legalized lying.”

H. G. Wells

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