Ulysses S. Grant Quotes

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

In many parts of Italy the only revolutionary factor would be the full application of the rule of law.

No man has a right to disturb the public peace, by personally resisting the execution of a law however bad. He ought to acquiesce, using at the same time the utmost powers of his reason, to promote its repeal.

If the law is wrong, it is for politicians to sort it out.

Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years.

Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof.

He will be released from jail. We are an emerging democracy and still have to change some of our laws

Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.

The laws of most countries are far worse than the people who execute them, and many of them are only able to remain laws by being seldom or never carried into effect.

The law is always in transition.

Those who advocate that bad laws should not be obeyed—in circumstances where such "bad" laws are enacted by a democratically elected government—are putting at risk the entire conception of civilized society. That directly challenges democracy...the way to change bad laws is to change the government that has made them

...no country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work, it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

… the magistrate should know what law he is to administer, that the subject should know under what law he is to live.

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

One of the main goals of the reforms is to broaden the rights of Mexicans. We needed a standard criminal code, the same rule of law all over the country. Instead of having different laws in every state, there will be the same law all over the country — at the federal and the local level — for any criminal procedure.

Whenever there's a bad law, it can be repealed or nullified.

I fought for the rule of law in America.

If the law does not give you what you want, you can oppose the law, you can work to change the law, but you cannot ignore the law. So it is fundamental that the constitutions of every one of our member states are upheld and respected.

We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey.

The most difficult thing to build up is the rule of law. America already had it when their nation began.

Judge-made law, where there is an absolute government and a lax morality, where there is no bar and no public, is a curse and scandal not to be endured.

When I grow up I’m going to change the government.

What have we allowed ourselves to become? Are we no longer a nation of laws? Have we become instead a nation of men who make secret arrests? Are secret prisons now simply another tool of the federal government law enforcement? Is secret rendition of individuals now permitted, out of misplaced fear? Have we decided that the writ of habeas corpus is not worth defending? Is torture now an acceptable tool for making us safe? Unfortunately, the single answer to all of these questions from the leaders of our country and to many of our citizens appears to be yes.