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“The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.”— Henry Miller
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“No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.”— Joseph Addison
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“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 Byrd
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“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.”— Julian Assange
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“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.”— Bob Filner
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“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.”— Romeo LeBlanc
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“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.”— Jon Stewart
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“But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs - though, if tequila is legal, pot should probably be legal.”— Ted Demme
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“Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration.”— Ted Nugent
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“Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.”— Thucydides
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“I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.”— Nicole Kidman
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“If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.”— Felix Adler
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“We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.”— Joseph Ratzinger
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“However, there is no legal and legitimate state called Israel.”— Hassan Nasrallah
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“Well, when I think of steroids I think of an image. You have the advantage over someone, which is a form of cheating. I guess it wouldn't be right unless it was legal for everybody. Reason it's not legal for everybody is because it can hurt people seriously.”— Evander Holyfield
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“I do not believe abortion should be legal.”— Herman Cain
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“Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.”— Franklin P. Jones
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“I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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“I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.”— James Joyce
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“Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.”— Rahm Emanuel
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“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
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“We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not.”— Michael Bloomberg
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“In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal.”— Rick Warren
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“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
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“Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.”— Kevin Mitnick