Enforce Quotes

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. (Abraham Lincoln)
We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them. View quote
Abdul Kalam
Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves. View quote
Gary North
The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies. View quote
John Lescroart
The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection. View quote
Elihu Root
There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within. View quote
Robert Dale Owen
The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities to be impressed with it. View quote
James Madison
The Supreme Court has made its decision, now let them enforce it. View quote
Andrew Jackson
We have a lot of goodness in this country. And we should promote it, but never through the barrel of a gun. We should do it by setting good standards, motivating people and have them want to emulate us. But you can't enforce our goodness, like the neocons preach, with an armed force. It doesn't work. View quote
Ron Paul
There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people. View quote
Hubert Humphrey
What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices. (Bertrand Russell)
It is equally clear that a government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a government. Moreover, the individual must be independent and free within his own sphere or cease to be an individual. The fundamental question was then, is now, and always will be through what adjustments, by what actions, these principles may be applied. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure." View quote
H. L. Mencken
If once again Germany destabilizes Europe, then Germany will be not be divided again, but wiped off the map. East and West have the necessary technology in order to enforce this verdict. If Germany begins again, there is no other solution. View quote
Lech Wałęsa
Nobody's going to go home for a year and come back. Nobody could ever enforce that. Nobody in their right mind would ever try to do it. View quote
Michael Bloomberg
Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will. View quote
Tony Blair
The habit which many have got into must be as far as possible corrected; those, I mean, who while they fight strenuously against the baser pleasures, yet still go on hunting for pleasure in the shape of worldly honour and positions which will gratify their love of power. They act like some domestic who longed for liberty, but instead of exerting himself to get away from slavery proceeded only to change his masters, and thought liberty consisted in that change. But all alike are slaves, even though they should not all go on being ruled by the same masters, as long as a dominion of any sort, with power to enforce it, is set over them. View quote
Gregory of Nyssa
A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness. View quote
Christina Hoff Sommers
What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out. View quote
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities. (Elton Gallegly)
Restrictions are difficult to enforce in a world where anybody can make anything. View quote
Hod Lipson
Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce. View quote
Lou Barletta
Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent. View quote
Lee Haney
You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby. View quote
Michael Steele