The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.

Rules, whether they govern sexual morality or financial probity, regardless of whether they are justifiable or undesirable, always provoke bold recalcitrants to devise clever, defiant ways to breach them.

Guantánamo Bay’s motto: ‘Safe, humane, legal, transparent detention.’ Four adjectives describing one sick joke.

All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of men that, on the contrary,...

I have read of a gentleman who owned a so fine house in London, and when he went for months of summer to Switzerland and lock up his house, some burglar came and broke window...

It is more informative how we treat things with no defined legal rights, than how we treat things with legal rights.

Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another. I’m more than fine with breaking a law if it disagrees with my values and morals.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

So many times the debate of abortion turns to legality. The issue is not legality, the issue is morality. Have you not forgotten? It was legal for Adolf Hitler to place all of those men,...

honest graft” were over, at least for a while. But seen from another perspective—that of ordinary citizens without access to Langlie and Abram’s elite network—Langlie didn’t so much end corruption as legalize it. Langlie wasn’t...

You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.