King James I Quotes

I. George Washington, President of the United States, do hereby command all persons, being insurgents, as aforesaid, and all others whom it may concern, on or before the 1st day of September next to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes. And I do moreover warn all persons whomsoever against aiding, abetting, or comforting the perpetrators of the aforesaid treasonable acts; and do require all officers and other citizens, according to their respective duties and the laws of the land, to exert their utmost endeavors to prevent and suppress such dangerous proceedings

A law is a law, and it has to be respected.

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

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

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe.

The priest accustoms the child to the idea of law, to make it obey better what he calls the "divine law," and the lawyer prates of divine law, that the civil law may be the better obeyed.

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

For the first time in my life, I have to grab the monks by the throat. Me! The most religious man in the Kingdom! Because I've had enough- more than enough! My subjects and the elite among my subjects must obey!

Nobody is allowed to break the law.

Donald Trump will do what he is told is the right thing to do in complying with the law.

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

Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?

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

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.

An educated people can be easily governed.

The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.

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

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

To be clear... no one is above the law.

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