Henry Hazlitt Quotes

Justice is incidental to law and order

The 4 policeman

In the criminal justice system, the law-abiding citizen comes first.

Order is said to exist where the people of the country have, as a general rule, ceased to prosecute their quarrels by private force, and acquired the habit of referring the decision of their disputes and the redress of their injuries to the public authorities.

Where there is law, and where there is government, there is security.

Law and order is the first and topmost priority.

We need law and order in America.

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe.

The first duty of our Government to its own citizens and foreigners within its borders is the preservation of order. Unless and until that duty is met a government is not even eligible for recognition among the family of nations.

One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates.

The policeman isn't there to create disorder, the policeman is there to preserve disorder.

We are incapable of maintaining peace and order and to enforce the law with the resources we have.

For the security of particular men, and, by consequence for the common peace, it is necessary that the right of using the Sword for punishment, be transferred to some Man or Counsel, that Man or Counsel is necessarily understood by Right to have the supreme Power in the City.

The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms, like law, discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property.

Our policemen and women are disrespected. We need law and order, but we need justice, too.

Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe from the violent without or within.

There can be no prosperity without law and order.

Effective law enforcement and social justice must be pursued together, as the foundation of our efforts against crime.

Secretary Clinton doesn't want to use a couple of words, and that's law and order. And we need law and order. If we don't have it, we're not going to have a country.

The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.

If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers ought to be punished: to authenticate as good, and to encourage as useful, law-abiding behavior. The aim of criminal law cannot be correction or deterrence; it can only be the maintenance of the legal order.

I don't want to have anything to do with the government. And yet if we don't have any regulations, there goes civilization, there goes security, and there goes protecting you against what people are going to sell you.

A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both.

I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked.