Jack Vance Quotes

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

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.

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

It's not so much the attorney general's job to decide what laws to enforce. We should do our jobs and enforce laws effectively as we're able.

At the end of the day, we must respect the rule of law in respective jurisdictions.

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

The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

Law, without force, is impotent.

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.

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

I don't think the Internet should be immune to the standing laws of countries.

The police must obey the law while enforcing 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.

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

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

What we had to do was to make it more dangerous for the federal government not to enforce federal law.

The compulsions of the law seem to have been provided for those only who require compulsions

If there be no officer to enforce the Law, of what avail is the judge?

Law … is but words and paper without the hands and swords of men

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

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

I couldn't vote to confirm any candidate who supports executive amnesty. The attorney general is a top law enforcement officer in this country - the senior person - and anyone who occupies that office must have fidelity to the laws of the United States duly passed, and to the Constitution of the United States.