Law Quote by Thurgood Marshall Download Open image “Do what you think is right and let the law catch up.” — Thurgood Marshall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Law Thinking
There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it. — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Get a good lawyer because sometimes it's hard to understand what you might or might not be agreeing to. — Goapele Copy Share Image
Sometimes there is a difference in what is legal and what ought to be done. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Forget the laws. If the laws don't make sense, if they run contrary to your conscience, you have to disobey them. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
This is a great country, but fortunately for you, it is not perfect. There is much to be done to bring about complete equality.… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
We could get more action in the South because the Negroes had a feeling that they were being oppressed. But you take New York,… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband. — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
The Ku Klux Klan never dies. They just stop wearing sheets because sheets cost too much. — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
Some may more quietly commemorate the suffering, struggle, and sacrifice that has triumphed over much of what was wrong with the original document, and observe the anniversary with hopes not realized and promises not fulfilled. I plan to celebrate the bicentennial of the Constitution as a living document, including the Bill of Rights and the other amendments protecting individual freedoms… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share
It is now well established that the Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas. ... This right to receive information and ideas,… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation to attain… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left… — Abul A'la Maududi Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought to favor this right and, so far as it can, see that the largest possible number among the masses of the population prefer to own property… But if the productive activity of the multitude can be… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share
Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac. — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this; secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece of wood? He has a right to use his knife to cut his meat, a fork to hold it; may a patentee take from him the right to combine their use on the same subject? Such… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
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