William Howard Taft Quotes

Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.

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

Donald Trump will do what he is told is the right thing to do in complying with the law.

Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

You can only avoid responsibility for so long. The catalyst ended up being the law coming down and finally saying, 'You guys suspended judgement and that's fine, because we're not.'

We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.

Lack of accountability in any decision making structure is not tolerable.

If we don’t enforce the regulations we have, these conversations are useless.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

I'm a person who promotes the concept of accountability to a great extent, and I've spoken in the Parliament and reinforced the need for accountability.

There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.

The first is the law, the last prerogative.

Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.

In the U.S., you have so many rules, everything's regulated and structured. When you make a mistake, you pay for it -a lot.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

You get blamed for whatever happens on your watch.

Certainly I shall not be one of those who, having gained power, do not wish to use it.

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