Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Quotes

Preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a basic ideal of any society that purports to be governed by the rule of law.

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.

Enforcing the law is not an injustice.

China has not established the rule of law and thus there is no justice.

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

Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

Let's create a legal system that can work.

I think that all of us, as Americans, are due due process and have a right to a fair trial, and have a right to be considered innocent until proven guilty. I think that is the American way and it's the foundation upon which this country was built.

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.

Justice is the object of government, and those who support the government, must be agreed as to the justice to be executed by it, or they cannot rightfully unite in maintaining the government itself.

When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.

Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern.

If you treat defendants by the same rules of courtesy as everyone else – give them fundamental due process, treat them with dignity, you'll get it back.

People must live with the laws that we make.

Freedom depends upon something. The rule of law.

Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.

Courts, not mobs, must execute the penalties of the law.

We cannot say that we love the rule of law and reject arguments that appeal to the rule of law as technicalities and hair splitting.

Justice is incidental to law and order

In our country the law of the strong does not prevail. The strength of the law prevails.

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

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.

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

...no country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.