Abraham Lincoln Quotes

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

I am able to put aside personal beliefs and follow the law, even when I strongly disagree with it.

If you are going to stand for the rule of law, if you are going to raise your hand and support the constitution, then you need to follow the law.

I would never ever knowingly break the law.

We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey.

As a democratic Socialist profoundly committed to the rule of law, I could not condone, let alone encourage, defiance of the law.

It's the duty of any government: where there is disregard of the law, that law and order must be instituted.

The Attorney General is not above the law.

Everyone should work within the ambit of law.

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

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

Without the reform of the justice system, there is no possibility of building a just state.

We will always obey the law. We will follow the rule of law.

What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?

There can be no peace without law.

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

The overall similarity is probably in the mentality of law enforcement officers. There's a sense of wanting to really uphold a sense of morality and make sure that the laws are enforced to the letter, whenever possible.

It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.

What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?

I believe we should follow the text of every law, even (a) law I disagree with, it's one of the real differences -- if you look at President Obama and the lawlessness, if he disagrees with a law he simply refuses to follow it or claims the authority to unilaterally change.

There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.

Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.

In seeking for justice men seek for the mean or neutral, for the law is the mean. Again, customary laws have more weight, and relate to more important matters, than written laws, and a man may be a safer ruler than the written law, but not safer than the customary law.

Respect for the law must be the basis for all legal action.