Top 1200 Law-Abiding Quotes & Sayings

One legislator accused me of having a 19th century attitude on law and order. That is a totally false charge. I have an 18th century attitude. That is when the Founding Fathers made it clear that the safety of law abiding citizens should be one of government's primary concerns.

A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding.

Gun-free zones don't deter criminals-they help them by providing a guarantee that they will not face any armed resistance. But they do deter the law-abiding. A faculty member with a concealed-handgun permit who breaks the campus gun ban would be fired and likely find it impossible to get admitted to another school. Bringing a firearm into a gun-free zone can have serious adverse consequences for law-abiding people. But for someone like the Virginia Tech killer, the threat of expulsion is no deterrent at all.

It's not law-abiding gun owners that are the problem here - it's Islamic terrorists.

It is a huge asset to law and order that serious or persistent criminals should be taken out of the society on which they prey. It makes life safer for the law-abiding and on the whole prisons are pretty good at containing those who have been committed to them.

This bill says go after the criminal, don't go after the law-abiding gun manufacturer or the law-abiding gun seller.

There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state.

If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers ought to be punished: to authenticate as good, and to encourage as useful, law-abiding behavior. The aim of criminal law cannot be correction or deterrence; it can only be the maintenance of the legal order.

As the Left demean law-abiding gun owners, they turn flaccid when faced with the armed felon.

Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?... Let us show that we can temper together those opposite elements of liberty and restraint into one consistent whole. Let us set an example for the world of a law-abiding America glorying in its freedom as well as its respect for law.

Law-abiding people need to be able to own firearms to protect themselves.

I'm a very law-abiding citizen, and I've never consciously broken any law. I get nervous just jaywalking in Los Angeles!

For the sake of our children, let's behave like civilized, law-abiding adults.

I am a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and believe that law-abiding Americans have the right to self-defense.

I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York.

I am pathetically law-abiding.

If we grant immigrants moral agency, we assume that they are capable of abiding by the law, and that they are legally responsible when they do not.

Portland calls itself a 'sanctuary city,' but it's nothing of the sort for a law-abiding journalist.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

So the first task of a police force is not to fight crime and enforce the law. It is to establish legitimacy with the law-abiding citizenry and then fight crime and enforce the law.

We have a responsibility to ensure the Palestinian Authority is abiding by U.S. law with total transparency.

In society at large, nerds are law-abiding, caring, fundamentally good folk who keep the wheels of civilization grinding.

I'm a law-abiding man. That is, if there's any law to abide by.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

I can't begin to describe how humiliating it is for a law-abiding citizen to be cross-examined in a court of law for a crime he hasn't committed.

Most laws that we make to protect people from guns are usually ignored by the criminals and obeyed by the law-abiding people. And so I think that if you had better data, there'd be no one more in favor of it than law abiding gun owners because they don't want to be smeared and lumped in with the criminals who use guns.

You don't reduce crime by taking away guns from law-abiding citizens.

I have great faith that most Americans are law-abiding and care about the rule of law, and if they're told a weapon is no longer allowed in their community and they would be compensated, they would find a way to do the right thing.

In order for the Constitution to work, you have to have law-abiding people. You have to have people willing to obey the Constitution, willing to follow the law. Obama doesn't care. He is the law.

Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.

Besides interrupting more serious criminal activity, intensive misdemeanor enforcement and proactive street stops send the message to criminals and law-abiding residents alike that the rule of law is still in effect in troubled neighborhoods and that the police are watching.

Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens.

I don't understand why it's controversial for law-abiding citizens protecting themselves under the Second Amendment.

From day one, I told people there are consequences for not abiding by the law.

We're not lawbreakers, we're law-abiding, and intend to stay that way.

Not a single federal dollar should be used for states or cities efforts to target law-abiding gun owners.

Blatant attempts to attack a constitutionally guaranteed right and a law-abiding industry.

Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration.

Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!

If someone can produce the law that keeps guns out of the hands of criminals but protects the right of law-abiding citizens to possess them, and doesn't infringe on those rights, I would consider that. But all the proposals I've seen do not achieve that goal. And we are missing a golden opportunity to have an important debate about violence in the USA. Violence in our society is the problem.

You have an always-expanding, omnipresent surveillance state that's constantly chipping away at the liberties and freedoms of law-abiding Americans.

The NRA isn't a boogeyman, it's a grass-roots organization made up of 5 million law-abiding Second Amendment supporters.

Law-abiding Americans deserve to know that their government will not secretly tap their phones, read their medical records, access their library accounts or otherwise invade their personal lives, with no oversight or accountability. Law-abiding Americans also deserve to know that when law enforcement can show an impartial judge clear evidence of criminal activity or a threat to national security, swift and decisive action will be taken to protect the public. That is the balance we must achieve.

The gun control mentality is ruthlessly absurd. It suggests that you pass a law which will bind law-abiding citizens — they won't have access to weapons. Now, we know that criminals, by definition, are people who don't obey laws. Therefore, you can pass all the laws that you want, they will still have access to these weapons, just as they have access to illegal drugs and other things right now. That means you end up with a situation in which the law-abiding folks can't defend themselves, and the crooks have all the guns.

pacifists lead a lonely life. Not even gathering together can take the place of that vast, warm sun of approval that is shed on motherhood, on law-abiding, on killing, and on making money. Someday will we come into our own? Well, motherhood may move into the shade. Law-abiding is going through a trauma. But killing and making money are good for a long, long time.

Good, law-abiding, value-oriented citizens are the ultimate in hypocrisy; "majority rules" and the law are exactly the same as being the biggest bully on the block with the biggest stick-it is only might that allows one group to force another to live by its code of conduct.

When you have law-abiding citizens who are actively ready to protect themselves and their family, that reduces crime.

The time has come to end the deadly experiment of disarming peaceable, law-abiding citizens near schools.

No child should be afraid to go to school, and Americans from all walks of life: students, parents, law enforcement, veterans, and law abiding gun owners, are demanding that we act to keep our kids safe.

The vast majority of young people in Britain are law-abiding citizens making important contributions to their communities.

My intention has never to commit something wrong and I have always believed in abiding the law.

It is unclear how disarming law-abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout the law. It is at just such times that the constitutional right to self-defense is most precious and must be protected from government overreach.

To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding.

When millions of law-abiding people achieve citizenship, our communities benefit, and the U.S. economy grows and strengthens.

In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.

Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of contempt toward the law are forged in this crucible and form the inner core of the beliefs of organized adult crime.

It is divisive politics to infringe upon the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens after a national tragedy.

My law enforcement experience has showed me first-hand the violent and psychologically scarring impact that can result from the series of dominoes that fall after an otherwise law-abiding citizen fails to pay a summons for a quality-of-life offense on time.

Any new gun control is simply gonna infringe on the law-abiding ability to exercise constitutional rights. There's not a single law that could be written, that has been written, that could be passed that would stop Omar Mateen from getting a gun and shooting people up.