Law Abiding Citizens

Famous quotes containing the words law, abiding and/or citizens:

“When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

“And she, by passion once demented
MThat woman out of Botticelli—
She brews and bottles, unfermented,
The stupid and abiding jelly.”
—Peter De Vries (b. 1910)

“It gives me the greatest pleasure to say, as I do from the bottom of my heart, that never in the history of the country, in any crisis and under any conditions, have our Jewish fellow citizens failed to live up to the highest standards of citizenship and patriotism.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)