Rod Rosenstein Quotes

It is not your great father who does this; but the laws of the country, which he and every one of his people is bound to regard.

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

People must live with the laws that we make.

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

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

The highest test of a people's fitness for free institutions is their willingness to obey law.

Let's get our civic laws right and abide by them.

Everyone should work within the ambit of law.

Respect for the rule of law is not optional; it's fundamental.

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

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

One of the damnable unhappy conditions of life is sometimes Government has to make people be civil.

Obedience to the law is itself a moral duty.

I know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute them: but let them consider, that though good laws do well, good men do better: for good laws may want good men, and be abolished or evaded by ill mend but good men will never want good laws, nor suffer ill ones.

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

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

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.

I know no human being exempt from the law. The law is the security of the people of England; it is the security of every person that is governed, and of every person that governs.

While a law is in force it should be lived up to. You have a right to try to change it, and if you can persuade the majority that it should be changed then it will be changed. But you must abide by a law until it is changed or you will be flouting the fundamental things that make us a democracy and a law-abiding nation.

We have a society now where obedience to the law is really a choice, an option only.

In our society, authority derives from justice, and in our society, learning to live with authority should derive from and aid learning to understand and to feel justice.

We simply believe that everyone who lives in our state needs to abide by our laws.