Ozzie Knezovich Quotes

It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.

I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.

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

You cannot strengthen the law by violating the law.

With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.

Are all the laws to go unexecuted and the government itself go to pieces, lest civil liberties be violated?

Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.

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

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

It is the duty of a citizen not only to observe the law but to let it be known that he is opposed to its violation.

If laws are going to work in this country, there has to be some finality.

Our whole system of self-government will crumble either if officials elect what laws they will enforce or citizens elect what laws they will support.

There is an international law just as there has always been a law against theft, but because the thief gets away with his booty at times is no reason why we should say that the law against theft has been abrogated.

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.

When you enforce the laws of the state, you don’t get to pick and choose.

It is better that the law should be certain than that every judge should speculate upon improvements in it.

...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.

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

Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.

The biggest drag on global growth in the coming decade will be lack of adherence to the rule of law

Having strong human rights laws is important, but they must be effectively enforced.

If a statute rightly reflects the opinion of the people for whom it is passed, or is adapted to give effect to that opinion, it gets itself enforced. If the contrary is true, the law fails of effect.

The U.K.'s reputation as a business destination will suffer if its authorities cannot be relied on to enforce the law.

The law is the law whether you're dealing with a multi-million-pound fraud or a car deal where someone feels diddled because their exhaust falls off on the way home.