"It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house."

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"It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house."

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"Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America."

Time, America, Challenge, Feet

"Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life."

Life, Fear, Crime

"Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood."

Time, Battle, Blood, Trials

"Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen."

Free speech, Freedom

"Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times."

Judges, Law, Opinion, Public

"We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians."

People, Act

"To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching."

Act, Right, Teaching

"There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society."

Society, Doubt, Practice, Prayer

"There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish and others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different."

Life, Rights, Majority, Today

"We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field."

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"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Legal, Authority, Oppression

"If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts."

Felix Adler, German Educator

Legal, Knowledge, Desire, Information

"FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good."

Felix Adler, German Educator

Legal, Time, Community, Conviction

"Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity."

Nelson Algren, American Novelist

Legal, Challenge, Conscience, Humanity

"I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people."

Kenneth Anger, American Author

Legal, People, Censorship, Living

"We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks."

Julian Assange, Australian Activist

Legal, Information, Mail, News

"The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt."

Joe Baca, American Politician

Legal, Hurt, Majority, Nothing

"And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing."

Dennis Banks, American Educator

Legal, People, Americans

"They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases."

John Perry Barlow, American Writer

Legal, Purpose, Public, Reason

"It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it."

Martin Bashir, British Journalist

Legal, Family, Advice, Agreement