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Legal Quotes by Lysander Spooner
- It cannot be said that the Constitution formed 'the people of the United States,' for all time, into a corporation. It does not speak of…
- Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms 'public health,' 'public good,' 'public welfare,' and the like. It…
- Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute…
- Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it…
- The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to make obligatory contracts.…
- The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to…
More Legal Quotes
- In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources… — Julian Assange
- We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it… — Julian Assange
- People do not win people fights. Lawyers do. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. — Saint Augustine
- Punishment is justice for the unjust. — Saint Augustine
- It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins. — Arthur Baer
- Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. — Honore de Balzac
- No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. — Joseph Addison
- We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living.… — Pope Benedict XVI
- Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. — Jeremy Bentham
- FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day… — Felix Adler
- It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight. — Annie Besant