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Laws not enforced cease to be laws, and rights not defended may wither away.


Thomas Moriarty

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Better no law than laws not enforced.
ITALIAN PROVERB Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.
ELBERT HUBBARD Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced
ELBERT HUBBARD There's laws ... they need to be enforced.
JANICE DAVIS All repressive laws must be revoked, and laws introduced to protect the rights of the people.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI How many thousands of lives would be saved if we enforced our immigration laws, our guns laws, and o...
JEFF SESSIONS There are very good laws on the books. What's important is that those laws are enforced aggressively...
AL HUBBARD The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws f...
A. E. HOUSMAN The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
FRANK ZAPPA The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
FRANK ZAPPA The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced
FRANK ZAPPA The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced
FRANK ZAPPA The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced.
FRANK ZAPPA I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, bu...
STEPHEN HAWKING That's when I began to look into how our laws simply aren't being enforced.
CHIP ROGERS By more than two to one Americans do not consider what Kevorkian did, injecting a terminally ill pat...
DAN RATHER It may not be a technical violation, but there's something called the spirit and intent of Florida's...
BARBARA PETERSEN Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.
VITTORIO ALFIERI Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a f...
ABU BAKAR BASHIR Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is...
HENRY MILLER Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN There is not, and there will not be, any other laws and values in France other than French laws. We ...
MARINE LE PEN Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constituti...
LYMAN TRUMBULL Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
DANIEL WEBSTER Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may
DANIEL WEBSTER To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be ...
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The chief foundations of all states... are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI As long as the regulations have not been revised, all prisoners will be given a sentence cut in line...
HAMID AWALUDDIN IF YOU CAN'T THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, THANK HIM FOR WHAT YOU HAVE ESCAPED!
NOT SURE i believe in love. lust. sex. romance. i don't want everything to add up to the perfect equation...i...
NOT REAL A conservative is a liberal who just got mugged and a liberal is a conservative who just got arreste...
NOT SURE If you are constantly looking in the rear view mirror, how will you ever see what is in front of you...
NOT SURE We have laws about human rights in place for a reason and even if those laws are so often not enforc...
DARLENE OUIMET Man will always do evil and break laws if God’s moral laws are not their foundation
SUNDAY ADELAJA managers and supervisors found responsible for violating civil rights or whistleblower protection la...
MICHAEL CHERTOFF The problem in China is not the lack of laws but whether these laws will be implemented by local gov...
HU JIA They were quoting the state election laws, but we're not subject to the state election laws.
CAROL JONES Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of obser...
HARRIET MARTINEAU Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of obser...
HARRIET MARTINEAU If we're going to detain people, and these are people in violation of civil laws, not criminal laws,...
BRYAN LONEGAN ICE enforced 400 to 500 different laws from drug smuggling to human trafficking. We could have stopp...
BRIAN MOSKOWITZ Slavery, our country's original sin, sat on a foundation codified by laws enforced by police, by...
WILLIAM BRATTON Arms and laws do not flourish together.
JULIUS CAESAR (CAIUS JULIUS CAESAR) Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
RUDOLF LUDWIG KARL VIRCHOW Our trade remedy laws are useless unless enforced. The Section 421 safeguard is the last line of def...
PHIL ENGLISH Judge Roberts declined to disavow disparaging opinions expressed against civil rights laws, voting r...
MARK DAYTON Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was ...
P. J. O'ROURKE It's not just a water company problem. Laws have to be enacted to close some of these loopholes so t...
JOSEPH KOTRAN There may be a myriad of laws that have some relevance.
ANDY FISHER It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can ...
ARTHUR EDDINGTON No laws can be bend for just one man. Just as all are equal before the laws of God. However, if we c...
C. LIDE SANGTAM The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from...
PHILIP WARREN ANDERSON People understand the gross laws, that is why they abide by them. Those who understand the subtle la...
DADA BHAGWAN All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws
VOLTAIRE A government of laws, and not of men.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR A government of laws, and not of men.
JOHN ADAMS Liberty is an affair of laws and institutions which bring rights and duties into equilibrium. It is ...
WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's...
JEFF MILLER We have very strong environmental laws in the United States and elsewhere around the world. The prob...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR. When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small ...
G. K. CHESTERTON Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals
GEORGE WASHINGTON I've been discouraged that we have an administration that is not willing to enforce the laws.
STEVE KING It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written.
JOHN PAUL STEVENS I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.
SAMMY SOSA When working with the Universal Laws you are working with the laws of manifestation, not instant gra...
JENNIFER O'NEILL To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Feast of Thomas the Apostle We have still much to learn as to the laws according to which the min...
GEORGE SALMON Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
GEORGE WASHINGTON This administration has continued the robust and vigorous enforcement of civil rights laws, ... Thes...
ERIC HOLLAND If there are problems such as child abuse, or spousal abuse, there are other criminal provisions or ...
MARTHA BAILEY If there are problems such as child abuse or spousal abuse, there are other criminal provisions or o...
MARTHA BAILEY The agency didn't overestimate that, that was the bid.
CINDI LAWS That went to number one in the charts and really catapulted me into the big league.
TIM LAWS I am mortified that what I said caused offense and am especially saddened that I created pain for an...
CINDI LAWS We will not know for definite for a few days, but we do know that Billy will be out for a number of ...
BRIAN LAWS I don't think (Goldberg) has adequate expertise to offer. Clean up your own house first.
CINDI LAWS We can breathe easily now and look back on a good first season in this division.
BRIAN LAWS The concern is that the sample of water you take is roughly the size of tea cup.
EDWARD LAWS We basically became more guard-oriented. We moved Nate Bache (6-2 senior) inside.
CHADD LAWS They won last year, they won football this fall and they have a great athletes. Plus, Kavanagh does ...
CHADD LAWS I accept my mistake as my own and will work to gain greater understanding and education.
CINDI LAWS From: The Crown of Telus
She opened her eyes, saw the crown sitting on her bedside table, and w...
WILLIAM LAWS This is a good feeling for us. Every year we haven't been on top of our games going into the tournam...
RACHEL LAWS Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way aroun...
PLATO good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way aroun...
PLATO The administration is not paying attention to the laws of biodiversity. It's paying far more attenti...
GLEN SPAIN Laws are made not to be broken.
They are made to curb our savagery.
TOBA BETA A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes ...
J. D. HAYWORTH Laws do not persuade because they threaten
SENECA State laws may need to be changed to allow prisoners from other states to come in.
LEO LALONDE I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legis...
YOSSI SARID Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO There are laws. There are rules. And when you break them, there are consequences. Laws of nature and...
AMY HARMON The government should not be using the immigration laws as instruments of censorship.
JAMEEL JAFFER We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us fr...
G.K. CHESTERTON We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public - but also to...
ADAM COHEN Equal laws protecting equal rights the best guarantee of loyalty & love of country.
JAMES MADISON

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THOMAS JEFFERSON If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should hav...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
THOMAS JEFFERSON One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our o...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results...
THOMAS JEFFERSON No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by who...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor...
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