Lawful Behavior Quotes

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, makes that and the action fine.

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

It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York.

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.

We will that every man above 12 years make oath that he will neither be a thief nor cognizant of theft

Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?

I'd think people would want me to follow the law and pay only what the tax code requires.

We will always obey the law. We will follow the rule of law.

What cops are hired to do is to control people who will not abide by the social contract.

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Everyone should work within the ambit of law.

We don't break the law.

The avoidance of tax may be lawful, but it is not yet a virtue.

I think, in this country, anybody can do whatever they want to do as long as it's not hurting anybody else or violating the laws of society.

If I had walked into a dry cleaning store, and I had looked over, and the register drawer was open with money inside, I wouldn't have taken it.

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?

To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful.

We are a nation of laws, and we will always act within the bounds of the law.

The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him.

The law, domestic or international, ought to be the floor below which we won't fall, the bare minimum. But we are the United States of America. We shouldn't limit ourselves or try to get around laws. We should be looking for what's right for us, what's right for the world and what's smart...