“If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.”
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.”
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
1 quote“If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
1 quote“The life of the law has not been logic it has been experience.”
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.”
Richard Rohr
1 quote“We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.”
Émile Durkheim
1 quote“When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.”
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.”