“No admission of the party... can make that legal which is in its nature illegal.”
Atherfold v. Beard (1788), 1 T. R. 615.
Source: "Let the Record Speak" 1939, “The Truth about Communism” https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015051180423&view=1up&seq=5 (1948), p. 15-16
“No admission of the party... can make that legal which is in its nature illegal.”
Atherfold v. Beard (1788), 1 T. R. 615.
“Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.”
A wonderful quote, if only it were true, despite no shortage image-quote-memes online. note: "Spurious" here: https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/tyranny-defined-which-legal-government-spurious-quotation note: "Not True"
Source: https://www.truthorfiction.com/thomas-jefferson-tyranny-is-defined-as-that-which-is-legal-for-the-government-quote/
“Legal and illegal activities had become inextricably intertwined.”
Source: The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003), Chapter 18, Albania's IMF Sponsored Financial Disaster, p. 293
Press conference Digital Journals in Spanish such as La Razón citing the article "Cuando la ley se convierte en una piedra en el zapato" or Libertad Digital "Evo Morales confiesa que da "pasos ilegales" en Bolivia para aplicar sus reformas."
The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson (1989)
Interviews, Television Appearances
Source: The New Left: The Resurgence of Radicalism Among American Students (1966), p. 103
“I have a saying: the scandal isn't what's illegal, the scandal is what's legal.”
As quoted on Crossfire, CNN, Nov. 15, 1990.
Interview with Jasper Gerard, "Taking the fight to the dreary people," The Sunday Times (London) (2 October 2005)
2000s
Speech on immigration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdL2k8jbnAs (24 June 2009), quoted in "Schumer talks tough on immigration reform issue" https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/schumer-talks-tough-on-immigration-reform-issue-1.1868825 by Tom Brune, Newsday.com (18 April 2010)