Samuel Chase Quotes

They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life.

I'm a prosecutor first and foremost, and as a judge, I put people in jail for extended periods of time when that was appropriate.

I was the law and order.

Let them bring me prisoners, and I’ll find them law.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for a breach is more so.

Since all people do not do their duty and some, on the contrary, commit injustices, for the sake of keeping order in society, injustices and all enterprises against this order must be repressed: which was possible only through authority given to some over others, and which made government necessary.

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

The most powerful person can wind up in jail.

Of course you got rights, the law's on your side, but sometimes the law takes a long time to kick in and so it gets put in the hands of us poor suckers on duty. You get my drift?

Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels.

Law is king of all.

I mean I've never been thrown in jail in New York or Los Angeles.

If you want to act like a butthead, your butt is going to get locked up.

I think a lot of people get in trouble with the law.

I'm supposed to enforce the laws of the land.

If you think someone committed a crime, you should turn them in to whomever you perceive authority to be.

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

You can put handcuffs on people who push the envelope. When they break the law, they deserve to have handcuffs.

When a police officer tells you to stay in the car, you stay in the car.

I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol…

Today there's law and order in everything. You can't beat anybody for nothing. If you do beat anyone, it's got to be for the sake of order.

The magistrate has the right to enforce what he thinks, and he who is conscious of the truth has a right to suffer.

I can raise more hell in jail than out.

If a king did not, without tiring, inflict punishment on those deserving to be punished, the stronger would roast the weaker like fish on a spit.

Bad people should be incarcerated.