“We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.”
Others on Law
Theodore Roosevelt
2 quotes“No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.”
John Adams
2 quotes“A government of laws, and not of men”
Cicero
2 quotes“In time of war the laws are silent.”
Robert Heinlein
1 quote“It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.”
Herbert Hoover
1 quote“If the law is upheld only by government officials then all law is at an end.”
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...”
Thomas Hobbes
1 quote“It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1 quote“Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.”
Ulysses S. Grant
1 quote“I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.”
Ursula K. LeGuin
1 quote“To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.”
Jonathan Swift
1 quote“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.”
Victor Hugo
1 quote“The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to...”