Quotes About Rule of law

Judge [Samuel] Alito has a reputation for being an exceptional and honest judge devoted to the rule of law, as well as being a man of integrity.

No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'

Let's think about how we can bring economic development, let's see if people could learn a little more of the rule of law, rather than the rule of man, which is kind of what you see in China.

Magna carta. Master charga.

There can be no civil peace without the rule of law.

British Conservatives base their entire approach to politics on the rule of law, and rightly so.

I think the United States is still the indispensable force for positive change and for rule of law and for order and structure.

The fact of the matter is that, in waging a scorched earth, no-holds-barred war of 'Resistance' against this Administration, it is the Left that is engaged in the systematic shredding of norms and the undermining of the rule of law. This highlights a basic disadvantage that conservatives have always had in contesting the political issues of the day. It was adverted to by the old, curmudgeonly Federalist, Fisher Ames, in an essay during the early years of the Republic.

all democratic societies based on the rule of law, on the Tinkerbell Principle: it functioned only so long as its participants believed in it.48

There is an ancient rule: actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea—"the act does not create guilt unless the mind is also guilty.

Without the rule of law there could be no safety and no progress: if you created something, somebody else might just take it away because they wanted it.

Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism-the last, of liberty.

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.

...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.

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

A government of laws, and not of men

We are a nation of laws with respect and recognition of the rule of law. We are not an imperialist government with a monarch abiding by the rule of one man.

In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.

Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.

We have to distinguish illiberal societies from places where freedom of speech and assembly, media pluralism, and the protection of minorities are under attack. These political rights are not just about liberalism (or the rule of law); they are constitutive of democracy as such.

We hold there is no worse enemy to a state than he who keeps the law in his own hands.

Political bargaining and political entrepreneurship can be seen naked, stripped of the flattering wardrobe of democracy, rule of law and state building.