Ability Quote by Thomas Aquinas

Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.

— David L. Bazelon

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what he ought…

— William Ernest Hocking

Law is intelligence, whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrongdoing.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

One thing is clear, everyone, no matter what their professional or material status, no matter what their influence on various state structures, must obey…

— Vladimir Putin

The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.

— Paul Ricoeur

Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the interests of…

— Fredrik Bajer

Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.

— Abraham Lincoln

Laws are to be respected.

— Fabio Lanzoni

Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or,…

— Alexander Hamilton

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original…

— Edmund Burke