Quotes About Law

I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government.

The moral law of God is the only law of individuals and of nations, and nothing can be rightful government but such as is established and administered with a view to its support.

I follow a set of principles; I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom, and individual liberty.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that there will not be a government church.

It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.

Nothing distinguishes more clearly conditions in a free country from those in a country under arbitrary government than the observance in the former of the great principles known as the Rule of Law.

The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.

I think it is in the interest of the people of [Serbia] that no one, not even the government, can get away with the crime, whoever the victim.

The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.

There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions.

I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.

The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.

What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.

...governments, including free and democratic governments, are not really friendly to freedom and democracy. They abhor any rule of law that limits their powers and penchant for social engineering.

Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.

Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.

Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.

The very concept of law that protects us from tyranny has been lost. No longer the people's shield, law has become a weapon in the hands of government.

We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.

Even if a government can be constitutional without being democratic, it cannot be democratic without being constitutional.

Buddha emphasized and re-declared the eternal and unalterable existence of the moral government of this universe. He unhesitatingly said that the law was God Himself.