Legal Safeguard Quotes

If you haven't signed anything, you cant be ripped off.

More rogues than honest men find shelter under habeas corpus.

Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the wide circle of the empire would submit to such an infraction of their privilege, even if a judge could be found daring enough to attempt it.

Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything that is not law, whatever shape is may assume.

The power of citizenship as a shield against oppression was widely known from the example of Paul's Roman citizenship, which sent the centurion scurrying to his higher-ups with the message: "Take heed what thou doest; for this man is a Roman.

Children and unborn children should be protected by law and welcomed into life.

The civil jury is a valuable safeguard to liberty.

Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.

A Bill of Rights would give great quiet to the people.

Law is the safest helmet; under the shield of the law no one is deceived.

Listen, it's very easy not to be ripped off, you know. Get yourself a lawyer.

The purpose of a jury is to guard against the exercise of arbitrary power—to make available the commonsense judgment of the community as a hedge against the over- zealous or mistaken prosecutor and in preference to the professional or perhaps overconditioned or biased response of a judge.

I'm concerned with protecting the legal system.

In the arguments in favor of a declaration of rights... one which has great weight with me is the legal check which it puts into the hands of the judiciary

Get a lawyer to look at your contract or beware. Because no company - evil or not - is going to do it for you.

If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well.

The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.

What many of those who oppose the use of juries in civil trials seem to ignore is that the founders of our Nation considered the right of trial by jury in civil cases an important bulwark against tyranny and corruption, a safeguard too precious to be left to the whim of the sovereign, or, it might be added, to that of the judiciary.

Trial by jury of facts where they arise is one of the greatest securities of the lives, liberties and estates of the people.