Compliance with Laws Quotes

Laws can never be enforced unless fear supports them.

An orderly society cannot exist if every man may decide which laws he will obey.

I do have an obligation to make sure that I am following some of the rules. I can't simply ignore laws that are out there.

It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersections, no fish and no ducks. OK?

In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law . . That would lead to anarchy.

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

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

If you want to see law and order, then come to Uttar Pradesh.

Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.

There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.

I'm a law-abiding man. That is, if there's any law to abide by.