Balachandra Menon Quotes

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts - nor by the officers of the law - nor by the lawyers - but by the men and women who constitute our society - who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law.

The government has a responsibility to protect society, to help maintain society. That's why we have laws... The rule of law creates a set of standards for our behavior.

We are a nation of laws, and we will always act within the bounds of the law.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

The first duty of law is to keep sound the society it serves

In order for the Constitution to work, you have to have law-abiding people. You have to have people willing to obey the Constitution, willing to follow the law. Obama doesn't care. He is the law.

We simply believe that everyone who lives in our state needs to abide by our laws.

Everyone should work within the ambit of law.

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

If the constitution goes, I go.

A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by example. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

People must live with the laws that we make.

It is not your great father who does this; but the laws of the country, which he and every one of his people is bound to regard.

The highest test of a people's fitness for free institutions is their willingness to obey law.

There is a Holiness about the Constitution; and we would ... wither every hand extended to treat it rudely. The peace and prosperity of this Republic, the world's last best hope, must not be haphazarded, much less destroyed, that certain men may rule

Law. Law. That is what saves nations from the most imminent dangers.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

The government cannot enforce its mountain of laws and regulations without voluntary compliance.

Law is just one public institution, but it is a cornerstone of society. When law goes, everything goes.

Let's get our civic laws right and abide by them.

If the law does not give you what you want, you can oppose the law, you can work to change the law, but you cannot ignore the law. So it is fundamental that the constitutions of every one of our member states are upheld and respected.

At some point, the law has to command respect, and there is a lawful way to change it.

The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty.