Enforcement of Laws Quotes

Make but few laws but see them well observed when once made.

Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

I am the law in Indiana.

What police officer would dare ticket Death's minivan?

The execution of the laws is more important than the making them.

The first duty of a government is to maintain law and order so that the life, property, and religious beliefs of its subjects are fully protected by the State.

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

Child marriage does not seem to be confined only to the mountains of Tennessee. The marriage of the little nine-year-old girl in that state, however, brought to light the marriage of a twelve-year-old girl in New York State. It seems inconceivable that parents should countenance a practice of this kind unless food is so short that one mouth taken out of the home counterbalances all other arguments. Certainly no one in their sane senses would want a child of nine to be married, and the publicity which has attended this marriage we may well hope will result not only in the passing but in the enforcement of laws requiring that children under a certain definite age may not be married. We have all heard with horror of the child marriages in India, and it is rather a shock to find that we are open to the same criticism in our extremely modern country.

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

The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.

Laws made in Alaska, which is known for its lawlessness, are as valid as laws made in Pennsylvania, which invented laws.

Charged with faithfully executing the laws, the president is, in effect, the nation's highest law enforcement officer.

Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.

Remember the attorney general is not a member of the president's staff. He's the attorney general of the United States. He's there to represent all of us, and it means all the laws have to be enforced fairly. And you can't bring your individual prejudices in there.

My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that - a stern enforcer.

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it.

And you know, I said yesterday, you know, you know, if they're not going to - if the feds aren't going to do their job, well, then, I'm up to suing the feds to make them do their job! I mean, they sued Arizona, you know, we can sue them back! I mean, they're not - they're not enforcing the laws!

Law. Law. That is what saves nations from the most imminent dangers.

If laws are going to work in this country, there has to be some finality.

I think that [John Kelly] will bring law and order. And what I'm hoping for with this is that the restoration of the rule of law, especially with regard to immigration, that is the main principle that needs to be driven by the secretary of homeland security.

[In America] there is no end to the laws and no beginning to the execution of them.

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.

Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.

To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.

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