Creek Nation Quotes

I want to live … where the people who make the rules have to live by them.

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

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.

I know no human being exempt from the law. The law is the security of the people of England; it is the security of every person that is governed, and of every person that governs.

I was raised to believe nobody is above the law - especially not a president.

What is going to rule our great commonwealth, the mob or the law?

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obeys them.

While a law is in force it should be lived up to. You have a right to try to change it, and if you can persuade the majority that it should be changed then it will be changed. But you must abide by a law until it is changed or you will be flouting the fundamental things that make us a democracy and a law-abiding nation.

The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.

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

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

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

The submission of free people to the executive authority of government, is no more than a compliance with laws which they themselves have enacted.

Respect for the law is not an obligation which is exhausted or obliterated by willingness to accept the penalty for breaking it.

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.

There is no king where there is no law.

We are ruled by public opinion, not by statute law.

Law is the strongest link between man and freedom.

I know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute them: but let them consider, that though good laws do well, good men do better: for good laws may want good men, and be abolished or evaded by ill mend but good men will never want good laws, nor suffer ill ones.

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

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.

The most important thing Spartans must learn is to know how to govern, and to be governed

Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.