Dan Bongino Quotes

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

Do not have any doubt that I will apply the law over whoever is responsible for not complying with the law.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

Reward and punishment are the twin instruments of power in the State; they must not be revealed to anyone.

Law without penalty is only advise.

One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it.

It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.

Law, without force, is impotent.

A need for enforcement implies the possibility of behavior that violates the rules of the game. The point is that if there were no possibility of violation, then you wouldn't need enforcement.

We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.

We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate.

Covenants without the sword are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.

Our sword must not be made of wood ... we must follow up on our threats if our demands are not obeyed.

Punishment alone governs all created beings.

Having rules means that sometimes people break them, and that means punishment.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

In the U.S., you have so many rules, everything's regulated and structured. When you make a mistake, you pay for it -a lot.

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

This law will be impossible to enforce. It will produce contempt for our laws and law enforcement.

People who challenge the United States and the international order [must] suffer enormous and unacceptable consequences.

There are two means by which states are maintained in their weal and greatness--reward and penalty: the one for the good, the other for the bad. And, if the distribution of these two be faulty, nothing else is to be expected than the inevitable ruin of the state... .

Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.