Calvin Coolidge Quotes

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

It is the duty of a citizen not only to observe the law but to let it be known that he is opposed to its violation.

Unless we have the Republicans joining us and helping us … we’ll have a mutiny in this goddamned country. So we’ve got to make this an American bill and not just a Democratic bill … It doesn’t do any good to have a law like the Volstead Act if you can’t enforce it

It is a fundamental principle of democracy that citizens obey the law or incur whatever penalty applies to its breaking.

Our duty as concerned citizens is to educate ourselves so that we can recognize and report trafficking to the proper authorities.

Our constitutional democracy demands our participation, not just every four years, but all the time.

As in the days of Edward I, the citizenry may be called upon to enforce the justice of the state, not faintly and with lagging steps but honestly and bravely and with whatever implements and facilities are convenient and at hand.

I belong to the Congress. My party has always supported prohibition, though it may not have been successful in implementing prohibition in many states.

It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety.

My faith teaches that life is sacred. That's why I personally oppose the death penalty. But I take my oath of office seriously, and I'll enforce the death penalty... because it's the law.

I don't think a reporter necessarily becomes an arm of law enforcement. I think a reporter is like any other citizen. If a citizen can do his or her duty as a witness, if they have information about a crime, or if they have information about a criminal group, I think that there's a duty on the part of the citizen.

The president does not have the option of choosing which laws he will follow and which he will ignore.

Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death, and are more likely to be harassed by the police.

I have to uphold not only the constitution of Alabama, but I swore to uphold the Constitution of the United States, and we will uphold the law of the United States.

I'm not ashamed to admit that prohibition is 'impractical.'

I'm not the guy to call the cops.

Charged with faithfully executing the laws, the president is, in effect, the nation's highest law enforcement officer.

The FBI's mission is to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution. That mission is both dual and simultaneous - it is not contradictory.

As attorney general, I don't get to pick and choose the laws I like and don't like.

If I became president now I would immediately pass a law that makes every citizen a policeman or a soldier.

I want to make one thing crystal clear. The NFL does have a responsibility to make sure that their players are upstanding, law-abiding citizens.

In the formation of such a government, it is not only the right, but the indispensable duty of every citizen to examine the principles of it, to compare them with the principles of other governments, with a constant eye to our particular situation and circumstances, and thus endeavor to foresee the future operations of our own system, and its effects upon human happiness. Convinced of this truth, I have no apology to offer for the following remarks, but an earnest desire to be useful to my country.

It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.

United States could be a great country. It needs to be a great country. It's our responsibility as citizens to make that happen, every single one of us.

For as good habits of the people require good laws to support them, so laws, to be observed, need good habits on the part of the people.