Steven Geller Quotes

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.

A State is not morally free to allow anarchy and license ... even if the majority should so desire.

When those who uphold the law are strong, the state is strong. When they are weak, the state is weak

All of us know that if an individual, a community, or a state is going continuously and successfully to defy the rulings of the courts, then anarchy results.

Law is just one public institution, but it is a cornerstone of society. When law goes, everything goes.

If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

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.

I love the system. Let me tell you why. People love it... The people, by and large, have great respect for our law and our system... Why do you think they go to that courthouse instead of killing each other in the streets, taking the law into their own hands?

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.

Rule of law is the most important element in any civil society.

Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.

Courts, not mobs, must execute the penalties of the law.

Order is said to exist where the people of the country have, as a general rule, ceased to prosecute their quarrels by private force, and acquired the habit of referring the decision of their disputes and the redress of their injuries to the public authorities.

Liberty is the Right of doing whatsoever the Laws allow

Can I suggest that the sheriff and the district attorney, in the lunch break, go out and read the Constitution.

The first duty of law is to keep sound the society it serves

The constitution of the judiciary, experimental and imperfect as it was even in the infancy of our existing Government, is yet more inadequate to the administration of national justice at our present maturity.

Law. Law. That is what saves nations from the most imminent dangers.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced

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

China has not established the rule of law and thus there is no justice.

At the end of the day, we must respect the rule of law in respective jurisdictions.

You can't build a society without law.

There can be no peace without law.