Enforcement Power Quotes

Law … is but words and paper without the hands and swords of men

Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.

Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.

Judges have no actual power of enforcement. They don't have troops to carry out orders. They have no power of the purse. Yet our system of laws depends on lowly citizens and presidents abiding by court rulings.

Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?

When any one state in the American union refuses obedience to the Confederation, by which they have bound themselves, the rest have a natural right to compel them to obedience.

The corporation is not a person; it is a legal fiction backed up by guns and police and jail cells and taxing authorities and the regulators called government.

For those broadcasters who are less than responsible, the FCC needs to have sharper teeth to enforce the law.