Unlawful Quotes

Unlawful Quote of the day

[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.

It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man.

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

Having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men.

He is not of us who is not affectionate to the little ones, and does not respect the old; and he is not of us, who does not order which is lawful, and prohibits that which is unlawful.

I have never said that people “should” engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.

When you speak, speak the truth; perform when you promise; discharge your trust... Withhold your hands from striking, and from taking that which is unlawful and bad.

I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

To be a good detective you must also think like a crook, an immoral, unethical or unlawful person

The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech.

Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure—its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever.

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive.

The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.

As civilization progresses, we should improve our laws basically, not superficially. Many things that are lawful are highly immoral and some things which are moral are unlawful.

What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive. [Lat., Quod licet est ingratum quod non licet acrius urit.]

In some respects, inside information is a form of financial steroid. It is unfair: it is offensive; it is unlawful; and it puts a black mark on the entire enterprise.

Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.

These guidelines contemplate a policy that will grant special benefits to illegal immigrants based on their unlawful presence in the country.

The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is, in truth, a "personal" right.

It is unlawful to add anything to the words of Holy Scripture regarding the sense.

If anyone has engaged unlawful activity, they should be held to account with the full force of the law.

[Bill] Binney designed ThinThread, an NSA program that used encryption to try to make mass surveillance less objectionable. It would still have been unlawful and unconstitutional.

We go after unlawful activities.

Even if we don't have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that the origin of the universe from nothing need not be unlawful or unnatural or unscientific.

Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.

Woman was and is condemned to a system under which the lawful rapes exceed the unlawful ones a million to one.

Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.

Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.

[Barack] Obama believes you can hold enemy combatants, unlawful enemy combatants at Gitmo without a criminal trial because this is law of war detention.

Nowadays it is seen as a shame, to marry a girl who is a mother, who has never been married. I want to get rid of that prejudice.