Legalistic Quotes

We are a church that is deadly serious about serving Christ and living out the Scriptures, and we invite people who want to live their faith in a thoughtful and non-legalistic manner to join us. - Jeff Miner

This is not a formal, legalistic ending of combat, but [an announcement that] major combat operations have ended. From a legal point of view, this is not the end of hostilities. - Ari Fleischer

My defense in this case will not be technical or legalistic. It will be categorical and absolute. - Tom DeLay

I'm sure there will be a lot of legalistic explanations pointing out that the president lied under oath... His (Livingston's) situation was not under oath. The bottom line, though, is that he still lied. He lied under a different oath, and that's the oath to his wife. So it's got to be taken seriously. - Mark Sanford

De Tocqueville talked about the legalistic bent of American culture but, whatever that was, it became accentuated in the latter part of the twentieth century. - Scott Turow