Suzanne La Follette Quotes

Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.

The Dutch public has always been accustomed to being treated according to the letter of the law.

The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of disuse of the law.

Respect for the law is not an obligation which is exhausted or obliterated by willingness to accept the penalty for breaking it.

We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.

It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.

Criminal justice is about respecting the law and being respected by the law so there is a fundamental respect issue here.

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

What is crucial is there be laws.

The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.

We all must follow the rule of law, not the rule of aldermen.

As long as the law exists, there will be morality.

Nothing is so faulty as those laws which correct faults. He who obeys them because they are just obeys a justice which is imaginary and not the essence of law; it is quite self-contained, it is law and nothing more.

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

… law as it exists in the modern community may be conveniently, although perhaps not comprehensively, defined as the sum total of all those rules of conduct for which there is state sanction.

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obeys them.

If you will not enforce the law, I will.

In reality there are two, and only two, foundations of law; and they are both of them conditions without which nothing can give it any force: I mean equity and utility.

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

China has not established the rule of law and thus there is no justice.

From day one, I told people there are consequences for not abiding by the law.

I cannot violate the law.

Our government depends upon the rule of law.

When you know the law, you're above the law. When you break the law, you're under the law.

Nobody is allowed to break the law.