Top 269 Enforced Quotes & Sayings

Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.

Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.

In the New World, happiness is enforced.

Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

It's a myth that the border can't be enforced. It can be enforced.

In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.

The Sabbath, as now recognized and enforced, is one of the main pillars of Priestcraft and Superstition, and the stronghold of a merely ceremonial Religion.

Americans will finally wake up in a country where the laws of the United States are enforced!

Gorecki, you know, there's a kind of personal thing there for me. I had, you know, kind of become obsessed with that sort of Soviet Bloc period. And actually, a lot of composers in the Soviet Bloc - Gorecki's not the only one - are writing for the harpsichord as a sort of reaction against enforced Soviet realism, expressionism, sort of enforced modernism.

Trust cannot be bought or commanded, inherited or enforced. To maintain it, leaders must continually earn it.

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

We have very strong environmental laws in the United States and elsewhere around the world. The problem is that they're seldom enforced.

Laws can never be enforced unless fear supports them.

Confiscatory taxation enforced by threat of imprisonment is 'stealing,' a practice strongly frowned upon by our Creator.

This divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.

I`m not as concerned about what Mr. [Jeff] Sessions expressed, except for the fact that he did say that, you know, these things would be enforced.

Immigration policy should be set and enforced federally.

Poorly negotiated and lazily enforced trade deals have caused jobs to flee the heartland.

I used to say that interviewing others was perhaps the way I could stop talking and start listening. It's a kind of enforced silence.

My own view is that the Churches should frankly recognise that the majority of the British people are not Christians and, therefore, cannot be expected to live Christian lives. There ought to be two distinct kinds of marriage: one governed by the State with rules enforced on all citizens, the other governed by the Church with rules enforced by her on her own members." --about the only statement i agree with in this book

Paradoxically, the few eras of peace were times when men of war had high influence. The Pax Romana was enforced by Caesar's Legions. The Pax Brittanica was enforced by the Royal Navy and His Majesty's Forces.

Rules must be established and enforced, and, as numbers are increased in prisons, the necessity for vigilance increases. These rules, let it be understood, may be kindly while firmly enforced. I would never suffer any exhibition of ill-temper or an arbitrary exercise of authority.

Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement.

Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony.

Immigration should be enforced in a proportional and humane manner.

America's highest economic need is higher ethical standards -- enforced by strict laws and upheld by responsible business leaders.

In our digital age, the Golden Rule is not enforced online.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

Old ways of thinking die hard, particularly when they were weaned by legally enforced monopolies.

A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.

The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.

Trouble looms when monogamy is no longer a free expression of loyalty but a form of enforced compliance.

I don't think I ate a green vegetable until I was 30. I didn't grow up with a mom who enforced that at all.

Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate.

A form of protectionism should be enforced at national level, at least on strategic areas such as agriculture.

Reactionary: One who wants the rules enforced so nobody can take his pile away from him the way he got it from others.

It's unfortunate that the U.K. and Europe don't have the kind of culture which esteems legal protections enforced by the courts in the same way as, for example, the U.S. does.

German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.

In a Trump administration all immigration laws will be enforced, will be enforced. As with any law enforcement activity, we will set priorities.

There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play.

So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!

We must send a message that visa expiration dates will be strongly enforced.

When any practice is proposed and enforced as a binding duty, we have a right to examine the grounds of the alleged obligation.

I offer you the remedy of Free Love as an antidote for enforced lust, and the world will have to take it before the disease can be cured.

Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.

Today's beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the media, is a person with the same level of body fat as a paper clip.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

The policies being enforced are more important than the agency enforcing them.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

Slavery, our country's original sin, sat on a foundation codified by laws enforced by police, by slave-catchers.

It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.

We would like UN resolutions to be enforced, including on Iraq.

It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.