“Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this: the People will assuredly do the rest.” PeopleStatesGovernmentLawCoursesNationsPeaceNaturalEconomyDutyIndustryFairsPropertyRewardsLeavingIntelligenceImprovementPunishmentFollyDepartmentRulersCommodityStrictIdlenessMaintainingObservingMaintaining Peace Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“Attorney General John Ashcroft has earned himself a remarkable distinction as the Torquemada of American law. Tomás de Torquemada...was largely responsible for...[the] torture and the burning of heretics — Muslims in particular. Now, of course, I am not accusing the Attorney General of pulling out anyone's fingernails or burning people at the stake (at least I don't know of any such cases). But one does get the sense these days that the old Spaniard's spirit is comfortably at home in Ashcroft's Department of Justice.” PeopleKnowsDoeHomeLawSpiritCoursesJusticeCasesParticularResponsibleBurningThese DaysTortureDepartmentDistinctionRemarkableStakesTomsPullingAttorneyHereticFingernailsAccusingSpaniardsAmerican Law Author:Walter Cronkite
“We need a strong police force - the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Chechnya. We have to get rid of the traitors who have managed to penetrate into the law-enforcement department.” NeedsLawStrongForcePoliceDepartmentRepublicMinistryInteriorsLaw EnforcementEnforcementPenetrateTraitorPolice ForceChechnya Author:Akhmad Kadyrov
“I never would force the Justice Department to go to California and arrest people getting medical marijuana, when that's the law there.” PeopleLawForceJusticeMedicalCaliforniaDepartmentMarijuanaMedical Marijuana Author:Ron Paul
“Practically all we know is that thousands of native Haitians have been killed by American Marines, and that many of our own gallant men have sacrificed their lives at the behest of an Executive department in order to establish laws drafted by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. ... I will not empower an Assistant Secretary of the Navy to draft a constitution for helpless neighbors in the West Indies and jam it down their throats at the point of bayonets borne by U.S. Marines.” KnowsMenHas BeensLawOrderConstitutionWestNeighborEmpoweringDepartmentNativeExecutivesThroatSecretaryHelplessNavyMarineJamAssistantsGallantBayonetsWest IndiesUs Marine Author:Warren G. Harding