Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

I am well aware that there are prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union, including some who have said they have chosen to resist the law because of religious reasons.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

If one accepts the terms of the covenant and obeys God’s law, he or she receives the blessings associated with the covenant.

Even Gaddafi’s adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it’s direction you get in His Word or something He’s specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

The law is reason, free from passion.

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

Law is mind without reason.

I love being in a courtroom.

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

Force does not constitute right… obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

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

Law, without force, is impotent.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‚within the limits of the law‘ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar.

When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

On the whole, we think of our consumers – other judges, lawyers, the public. The law that the Supreme Court establishes is the law that they must live by, so all things considered, it’s better to have it clearer than confusing.