Legal quotes

The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, they're going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him.

We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart.

As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.

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.

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

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.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

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

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

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

A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.