If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A law is a law, and it has to be respected.
I respect, too, the fact that in our legal order it is for Congress and not the courts to write new laws. It is the role of judges to apply, not alter, the work of the people's representatives.
In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.
If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important.
Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
We will absolutely respect the law until we are in government at the national level and can change it.
There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.