339 private quotes tagged legal

“Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.” — Andrew Johnson

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“Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.” — Preston Manning

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“Above all, 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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“And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.” — Dennis Banks

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“You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybody's switching to a computer. And I'm sort of laughed at.” — Robert Caro

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“What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attaches overseas.” — Robert Mueller

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“In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get it without showing you anything.” — Richard Stallman

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“The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.” — Conrad Black

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“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

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“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.” — Lindsey Graham

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“The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous.” — Lindsey Graham

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

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“The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt.” — Joe Baca

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“Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.” — Cliff Stearns

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“Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.” — Mike Pence

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“I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.” — Arabella Weir

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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

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“We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way.” — Ibrahim Rugova

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“Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.” — Lionel Trilling

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“Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery.” — George Segal

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“Torture is such a slippery slope as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.” — Iain Banks

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“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

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“The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe.” — Orson Pratt

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“Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.” — Caleb Cushing

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“It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.” — Virgil Goode

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