Ronald Reagan Quotes

There's no excuse for breaking the law.

People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

We as a Congress have a moral obligation to bring justice to the families of these victims. Furthermore, as a society based on laws, we have a responsibility to ensure that criminals don't go unpunished.

Acts of individuals are individual. As such they should be tried and punished.

Laws can embody standards; governments can enforce laws—but the final task is not a task for government. It is a task for each and every one of us. Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted—when we tolerate what we know to be wrong—when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy, or too frightened—when we fail to speak up and speak out—we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.

I will ensure that no criminal will ever get any political protection in my government. If anyone takes law in his hands, he would not be spared.

There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility

Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.

You wanna know people are held accountable if they engage in misconduct and that no one is above the law.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

The law is bigger than money - but only if the law works hard enough.

I followed the law. Before God, before the law, before the people of the state of Florida who elected me, I know that I followed the law.

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.

Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.

We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.

I'm really only responsible for my own actions.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

I don't personally feel a responsibility to be a role model, but as the actor, I do.

You can put handcuffs on people who push the envelope. When they break the law, they deserve to have handcuffs.

Respect for the law is not an obligation which is exhausted or obliterated by willingness to accept the penalty for breaking it.

I don't hang anyone—the law does.