Quotes About Law

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

When your response to everything that is wrong with the world is to say, 'there ought to be a law,' you are saying that you hold freedom very cheap.

Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression.

A constitutional state is like daily bread, like water to drink and air to breath, and the best thing about democracy is that it is the only system capable of securing the constitutional state.

We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom.

A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.

It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.

[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom.

Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law.

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

Freedom works, it turns out; the Constitution codified and structured freedom at a level unparalleled in world history.

Freedom is the silence of the law.

The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.

Mastery is proven only in limitation, and law alone can give us freedom.

We are exceptional not because of who we are but because of what we do and how we put the ideals of human dignity, individual freedom, and liberty under law into action.

The constitution expects every man to do his duty; and when he fails the law urges him; or should he do too much; the same master rebukes him.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

Freedom of religion is a fundamental Constitutional principle. It's a founding principle of this country.

It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

There ought to be a law about you coming around.

Between married persons, the cement of friendship is by the laws supposed so strong as to abolish all division of possessions: andhas often, in reality, the force ascribed to it.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.