Quotes About Law

People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law.

In fact, street gangs are the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the United States.

The primary role of government is to provide for the safety and security of their populations.

If people think that women only wear the burqa because of coercive pressure, let them create ample opportunities for them, at the same time enforce laws making primary and secondary education compulsory, and then see what women actually do.

We have legislated to protect the public from tax rises and guarantee incomes for pensioners, so enshrining in law more protections for consumers, commuters and investors is possible. Enshrining these rights into law would mean that any future government which wanted to reverse this would have to go through the primary legislative process.

At the end of the day, the law is the same for the Prime Minister or a common man of India.

The first law I passed in my cabinet was a law eliminating the double salary for the prime minister and the ministers. I have a salary as member of parliament. I don't want a double salary. So it was a very important decision.

It is of course one of the great joys of our country, a beacon of democracy that the world admires, that every citizen is equal under the law - even the prime minister - and no one, not even him, is above it.

We Americans are a primitive people... Americans seem to have little respect for the law or the rights of others.

In 1978, we adopted a new Bankruptcy Code in the United States, and a principal part of this was designed to adjust to the new corporation, to find ways to let a corporation that had gotten into financial trouble reorganize itself. A big part of the selling point on this bankruptcy law was, 'It will preserve jobs.'

The principal cause of suffering during humanitarian crises is insufficient respect of applicable rules of international humanitarian law.

It's an Islamic principle that you must follow the law of the land where you reside.

The organizing principle, which according to an eternal law creates the different essential organs of the body, and animates them, is not itself seated in one particular organ.

My commitment to gender equality is rooted in the quintessentially American principle of equal justice under law.

In a system that disproportionately harms poor people and people of color, too many Americans have lost faith in the essential American principle of equal justice under law.

Attrition through enforcement is simply the self-evident principle that if you ratchet up the level of enforcement and make it more difficult to break the law, fewer people will continue to break the law.

It is a fundamental principle of democracy that citizens obey the law or incur whatever penalty applies to its breaking.

The rule of law is the most basic principle on which our Constitution is based.

The fact is, American law encourages whistleblowers and, often, they go down in history as courageous people of principle who made their country better.

The ruler who possesses methods of government does not follow the good that happens by chance but practices according to necessary principles. Law, methods, and power must be employed for government: these constitute its 'necessary principles.'

The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice.

Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles.

One of the bedrock principles of physics is the conservation of energy. In this universe, energy can be neither created nor destroyed.