"Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions." - Albert Bushnell HartTweet
"While there continues to be differences, the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences." - Boris TrajkovskiTweet
"My job is to interpret the law based on how the legislature and the court has done it and then, of course, to use our system of justice to develop some new legal tools and new concepts." - Bill ScottTweet
"So, I'm getting less chips, paying the same amount of money. Is that legal for them to do this?" - Julie ChenTweet
"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." - Robert ByrdTweet
"We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets." - Thomas FriedmanTweet
"The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on." - Dorothy DayTweet
"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 PoitierTweet
"The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda." - John YooTweet
"Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants." - Lamar S. SmithTweet