“If the law is upheld only by government officials then all law is at an end.”
Others on Law
John Adams
2 quotes“A government of laws, and not of men”
Theodore Roosevelt
2 quotes“No man is above the law, and no man is below it.”
Cicero
2 quotes“In time of war the laws are silent.”
Ambrose Bierce
1 quote“Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw.”
Arthur Miller
1 quote“When the law is wrong it's because it's unnatural, but in this case it is natural and a river will drown you if you buck...”
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
1 quote“If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
1 quote“If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law.”
Émile Durkheim
1 quote“When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.”
Herman Melville
1 quote“There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate f...”
Hunter S. Thompson
1 quote“We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce t...”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1 quote“Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.”
Voltaire
1 quote“If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.”