Mahmoud Abbas Quotes

We all want and need the rule of law to be upheld.

All men must operate under one general law.

Obedience to the law is itself a moral duty.

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.

Nothing is so faulty as those laws which correct faults. He who obeys them because they are just obeys a justice which is imaginary and not the essence of law; it is quite self-contained, it is law and nothing more.

Laws are to be respected.

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

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

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

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

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

If you will not enforce the law, I will.

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.

Nobody, no family, is above the law.

The law is the foundation of our society.

Laws are there for a reason, and we have an obligation to follow them.

We rely on the rule of law. I think we've lost touch with that concept in Washington.

Respect for the rule of law is not optional; it's fundamental.

We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.

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

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.

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

One with the law is a majority.

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.