Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes… You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

Because of my parents‘ love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia – first by Hitler and then by Stalin.

All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.

Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come.

We welcome the scrutiny of the world – because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

I disagree with any policy that would turn America’s back on people who are fleeing harm. I frankly believe that it is contrary to everything that we have symbolically and actually said we stand for.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

When you go to your local police officer, your police chief in the town you live in, big or small, he will tell you the vast majority of the weapons recovered at a crime scene are either stolen weapons, and/or they have been ‚lost‘ or stolen.

Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

Law is mind without reason.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

I’m a felon. I get pulled over all the time.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

There are certain age limits on police officers. They’d have retired me out at 65.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

More law, less justice.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

We shouldn’t have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

States should have the right to enact laws… particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

I would dream. I focused all my attention on going to America. The subculture, James Dean, the rock n‘ roll, the beat writers.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined period, the legitimacy of the war became a major domestic issue, with some people arguing that withdrawal was the only legitimate objective.

I believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

Nobody’s ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there’s some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.

Since coming back from overseas, this is more of a foreign country than the places overseas. I don’t understand it. It’s like America has lost faith in rational thought.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.