Edwin Edwards Quotes

We don't break the law.

I am pathetically law-abiding.

I always tried to be the perfect little girl. Always tried to have the perfect little manners. Never wanted to displease my parents.

I was just an ordinary student. I'd always gotten along with authorities quite well.

I've said, I never thought I rebelled. I never - I don't think I've ever had that period. You know, I just had to do what I had to do. You know, I was a good kid.

My parents are not people who would want to rock the boat. They wouldn't break the law.

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.

My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.

I've always been a rule-follower. Even when I was a kid, I tried to do everything by the book.

I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.

I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

I'm fairly obedient. I do what I'm told.

So far, I've never missed a deadline for a term paper, a review, a manuscript. I perform the mumbo-jumbo of voting with belief in my heart, I've not yet won even a jaywalking ticket, and unlike my father, whom I fault in this respect, I refrain from opting out of jury duty; instead, they mostly kick me out.

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

People always say that Randy Moss can't stick to the rules. Even my own rules.

Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school.

When the government leads by the right example, who dares to go astray.

In the military you do not get points for creativity. You get points for obedience.

I must confess, that if left to act entirely upon my own judgment, I should not have recognized this provisional government …. But I claim no right to set up my own judgment against that of my government, believing strict obedience to the wishes of my government my first and sole duty.

You must absolutely lend yourself to what the court accustomed to doing. All eyes will be fixed on you.

We can’t be a scofflaw. It helps us to get others to follow the rules if we follow the rules.

Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own.

All the better; they do not force me to do anything that I would not have done of my own accord if I did not dread scandal. But since they want it that way, I enter gladly on the path that is opened to me, with the consolation that my departure will be more innocent than was the exodus of the early Hebrews from Egypt.