Legal Restriction Quotes

The first instinct of the modern man is to get a law passed to forbid or prevent what, in his wisdom, he disapproves.

I'm not ashamed to admit that prohibition is 'impractical.'

Social Security is legally prohibited from contributing to the deficit. It cannot use debt to pay out benefits.

As a government employee, you can't testify against the government.

Unfortunately you can't copyright a title... bummer.

The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.

We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

I was the youngest in the world in history when I started, 15. That's illegal now.

I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.

Cow-slaughter can never be stopped by law.

Every legislative limitation upon utterance, however valid, may in a particular case serve as an inroad upon the freedom of speech which the Constitution protects.

You don't have the right to be left alone with that abortion decision. The child is present...you are not alone.

Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no choice, either

Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of lives that are clobbered yearly as a result of laws: outmoded laws; laws that found their way onto the books as a result of ignorance, hysteria or political haymaking; antilife laws; biased laws; laws that pretend that reality is fixed and nature is definable; laws that deny people the right to refuse protection. A survey such as that could keep a dozen dull sociologists out of mischief for months.

I don't have the luxury of ignoring the law and running a program that's unlawful.

I do not support gambling in this state.

Prohibition is a Constitutional mandate and I hold it absolutely necessary to give it a fair and thorough trial.

We have never stopped sin by passing laws.

The ban is completely out of my hands. And I think in most people's minds, even if it's unrealistic to them, it's one that I left myself with no choice on.

I am the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his children.

As a matter of fact, wherever I find that law exists, I will not perform in that state or in that part of the world.

Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law.

We are law-abiding citizens who have to leave their weapons in their car when they take their family our for a nice dinner … this is just a major inconvenience.

It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.