Amul Thapar Quotes

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

It is not your great father who does this; but the laws of the country, which he and every one of his people is bound to regard.

We all must follow the rule of law, not the rule of aldermen.

What is going to rule our great commonwealth, the mob or the law?

Our people love and understand authority better than law. They consider a military chief more accessible than an article of a legal code.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

There are rules and regulations, and we live in a country where the Constitution gives us rights and at the same time there are things that have to be restricted. Hence, I believe the law of the land should be adhered to.

Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.

No, I think that we've got a basic discrepancy here between the rule of law versus the rule of man.

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

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

The government has a responsibility to protect society, to help maintain society. That's why we have laws... The rule of law creates a set of standards for our behavior.

To be clear... no one is above the law.

Protests are fine. But in South Carolina we believe in the rule of law, and the people of this state should never doubt that as governor, I will enforce it.

The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.

If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of majority. That's the way it's done in the U.S., and that's the way it's done in Russia.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

The very idea of the law in a constitutional republic involves the requisite that it be a rule, a guide, uniform, fixed and equal, for all, till changed by the same high political power which made it. This is what entitles it to its sovereign weight.

People must live with the laws that we make.

Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.