William McKinley Quotes

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.

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

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

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

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

Let every man remember that to violate the law is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the charter of his own and his children's liberty.

Where there is no law, there is no freedom.

Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.

The Constitution: it's not just a good idea, it's the law.

The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.

Law and its instrument, government, are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us, but all of us, unless we live the lives of mud turtles, frequently find them arrayed against us.

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

The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected.

There can be no liberty without the law.

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 about living in a world with rules, or a world without rules.

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.

The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.

A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?

It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself.

The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.

I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.