Midrash Quotes

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

No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law.

I well understand that the role of Attorney General is to enforce the law as it is, not as I would have it.

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

The Attorney General is not above the law.

A government of laws without men is as visionary as a government of men without laws.

The laws are the sole guardians of right, and when the magistrate dares not act, every person is insecure.

It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.

We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

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

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.

Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the sentence or judgment of his peers, is only carrying that sentence or judgment into execution.

As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected.

I have had many opportunities to flee HK, but I would rather stay and fight the United States government in the courts, because I have faith in Hong Kong's rule of law.

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.

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.

I'm supposed to enforce the laws of the land.

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.

The judiciary must be independent, impartial and autonomous to impart justice to the people and establish rule of law in the society.

Remember the example I have given you of respectful submission to the administration of justice.

There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

All law is a dead letter without public opinion behind it.