Law And Order Quotes

• There can be no prosperity without law and order.

  Donald Trump

  Law, Order, Prosperity

  Donald Trump's Acceptance Speech at the Republican Convention, time.com. July 22, 2016.

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• Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.

  Albert Einstein

  Wise, Order, Law

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.384, Princeton University Press

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• Law and order comes from having respect for one another.

  Stevie Wonder

  Order, Law

  "This Hillary Clinton interview is my favorite of the entire 2016 election". "The Breakfast Club", www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2016.

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• Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Block, Order, Law

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• The essential function of the State is to maintain peace, justice, law, and order, and to protect the individual citizen against aggression, violence, theft, and fraud.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Order, Law, Justice

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.183, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Respect, Ignorance Of The Law, Order

  Hunter S. Thompson (2002). “Songs of the Doomed”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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• Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.

  John Lindsay

  Peace, Freedom, War

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• Law and Order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Order, Law, Medicine

  "Words of Freedom: Ideas of a Nation".

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• Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies... for what we are doing is right, what we are doing is just -- and God is with us.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Believe, Order, Law

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• Justice is incidental to law and order.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Order, Law, Justice

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

  Idi Amin

  Country, Sacrifice, Uganda

  Attributed in "Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations" by Jonathon Green, 1982.

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• To abolish fear correctly is to nurture law and order.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Order, Law, Nurture

  Source: www.rfa.org

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• The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Trust No One, Order

  "Tao Te Ching". Ch. 57, 4th century BC.

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• Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Thinking, Order, Law

  Henrik Ibsen (2015). “Ghosts”, p.47, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Justice is merely incidental to law and order. Law and order is what covers the whole picture. Justice is part of it, but it can't be separated as a single thing.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Order, Law, Justice

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• Do you see law and order? There is nothing but disorder, and instead of law there is the illusion of security. It is an illusion because it is built on a long history of injustices: racism, criminality, and the genocide of millions. Many people say it is insane to resist the system, but actually, it is insane not to.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Order, Law, Long

  Mumia Abu-Jamal (2003). “Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience”, p.11, South End Press

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• Our policemen and women are disrespected. We need law and order, but we need justice, too.

  Donald Trump

  Order, Law, Justice

  The third presidential debate between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I have never stuck up for any criminal. I have merely asked for the orderly administration of an impartial justice...Due legal process is my own safeguard against being convicted unjustly. To my mind, that's government. That's law and order.

  Erle Stanley Gardner

  Government, Order, Law

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• To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.

  Arthur Henderson

  Order, Law, World

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• Law and order embrace on hate's border.

  Kenneth Patchen

  Hate, Law, Order

  Kenneth Patchen (1968). “The Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen”, p.486, New Directions Publishing

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• And it is to these rights - the right of law and order, the right of life, the right of liberty, the right of a job, the right of a home in a decent neighborhood, and the right to an education - it is to these rights that I pledge my life and whatever capacity and ability I have.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Jobs, Work, Home

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• I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.

  Jerry Garcia

  Thinking, Order, Law

  Source: medium.com

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• Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like.

  William O. Douglas

  Brother, Powerful, World Government

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1970). “POINTS OF REBELLION”

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• For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been thinkable if their motive force, instead of fanatical, yes, hysterical passion, had been merely the bourgeois virtues of law and order.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Passion, Order

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order."
  - John V. Lindsay
  "No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Government, Order, Law

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