Donald Trump Quotes

Keep under strict surveillance and control those secret establishments which, within your government structures, seem to regard themselves as above the law.

If all of us work in accordance with rule of law, if rule of law is implemented, we are all safe, investors are safe, people will be safe.

We have institutions, but they don’t work. We have laws, but they must be enforced.

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

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

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.

We need a president who is willing to uphold the law.

Why do we have U.S. attorneys? Because we need a mechanism to make sure people obey the laws that we pass, for societal reasons.

Do not have any doubt that I will apply the law over whoever is responsible for not complying with the law.

I value my ability to keep state secrets.

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

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously.

A chief executive doesn’t get to pick and choose which laws he will enforce.

[Defining state secrets:] All state affairs which have not yet been decided upon, or which have been decided upon but not yet been made public.

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.

The laws of the United States must be executed. I have no discretionary power on this subject; my duty is emphatically pronounced in the Constitution.

It is the obligation of every government to yield protection to their citizens as the consideration for their obedience

Make but few laws but see them well observed when once made.

Latin American legislatures have probably passed more laws over the past 175 years than their counterparts anywhere on the planet. Yet never have so many laws been ignored by so many for so long

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

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

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

The first duty of a state is to provide for its own conservation. Until that point is secured, it can preserve and protect nothing else. But, if possible, it has greater interest in acting according to strict law than even the subject himself. For if the people see that the law is violated to crush them, they will certainly despise the law. They, or their party, will be easily led to violate it, whenever they can, by all the means in their power. Except in cases of direct war, whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.

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