Law Respect Quotes

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

Respect for the law is not an obligation which is exhausted or obliterated by willingness to accept the penalty for breaking it.

If you can't respect me, you have to respect the law.

I'm trying to demystify the whole process. Make it simple, make it palatable. I want people to have respect for the law, and I want to educate people on the basics of the law.

As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'

I do believe that if you continually go through a cycle of amnesty, that you undermine the respect for the law and encourage more illegal immigration into America.

We are a nation of laws with respect and recognition of the rule of law. We are not an imperialist government with a monarch abiding by the rule of one man.

A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise legislature would do the same. It is folly to make laws on subjects beyond human prerogative, knowing that in the very nature of things they must be set aside. To make laws that man cannot and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. It is very important in a republic, that the people should respect the laws, for if we throw them to the winds, what becomes of civil government?

The first priority is to make the change from a revolutionary mentality to a civil society in which there is respect for law.

Peace will be restored by enforcing the rules for millions for overstay their visas. Our laws will finally receive the respect that they deserve.

I think we're all safer when the police respect the communities they're supposed to serve, and the communities respect the law.