J. D. Hayworth Quotes

Laws can only be as effective as the willingness of people to obey them.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

This law will be impossible to enforce. It will produce contempt for our laws and law enforcement.

There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.

If we refuse to obey our own laws, can we really preach to the world the importance of the rule of law.

We have a society now where obedience to the law is really a choice, an option only.

There's no excuse for breaking the law.

They that make laws must not break them.

The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.

Do not have any doubt that I will apply the law over whoever is responsible for not complying with the law.

Respect for the law is not an obligation which is exhausted or obliterated by willingness to accept the penalty for breaking it.

It is the duty of a citizen not only to observe the law but to let it be known that he is opposed to its violation.

Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.

Latin American legislatures have probably passed more laws over the past 175 years than their counterparts anywhere on the planet. Yet never have so many laws been ignored by so many for so long

There never was a law yet made, I conceive, that hit the taste exactly of every man, or every part of the community; of course, if this be a reason for opposition, no law can be executed at all without force

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.

We have institutions, but they don’t work. We have laws, but they must be enforced.

Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of society. For one man to disobey a law he does not like is to invite others to disobey another law which he may regard as indispensable to his own livelihood - or life.

From day one, I told people there are consequences for not abiding by the law.

I just want everybody to follow the law.

I cannot violate the law.

People are unwilling to enforce the laws on the books. Instead, they make more laws. Why can't we get this right?