Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

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.

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

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

We have a great many chiefs and headmen but, be they ever so great, they must all abide by the laws ... These laws are not made for any person in particular but for all.

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

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

Laws can only be as effective as the willingness of people to obey them.

Let every man remember that to violate the law is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the charter of his own and his children's liberty.

The law, the will of the majority expressed in orderly, constitutional methods, is the only king to which we bow.

...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.

It is a fundamental principle of democracy that citizens obey the law or incur whatever penalty applies to its breaking.

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

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

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

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

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

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.

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

Albania under law is the motto that leads our vision.

People must live with the laws that we make.

Obedience to the law is itself a moral duty.

We are in bondage to the law so that we may be free.

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.