Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

According to the laws and constitution of the people, which I [the Lord] have suffered to be established, and should be maintained for the rights and protection of all flesh, according to just and holy principles.

Freedom depends upon something. The rule of law.

Free integral elections should be guaranteed, where values of justice and rule of law also prevail.

We are a country of laws. When you take that away, the consequences are enormous.

Our laws are ultimately all that protect us from tyranny, and before them we are all equal - prime ministers and private citizens alike.

Believing in and practising the principles of the rule of law is, with our liberty and democracy, among the most powerful weapons we have. It is less effective if we blur its clarity and we should do this as sparingly as possible.

Human rights and rule of law are inseparably connected.

So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.

Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the rule of law.

Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern.

Albania under law is the motto that leads our vision.

We have a great many chiefs and headmen but, be they ever so great, they must all abide by the laws ... These laws are not made for any person in particular but for all.

What is going to rule our great commonwealth, the mob or the law?

It is ingrained into our national life that the rule of law makes us free.

Wherever law ends, tyranny begins.

I know no human being exempt from the law. The law is the security of the people of England; it is the security of every person that is governed, and of every person that governs.

We must bring the rule of law to its full fruition in the United States, and when we do, we will have achieved the goals and rhetoric of our Founding Fathers.

Living in a republic demands a great deal of us.

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Democracy is a gleaming Excalibur - let's not use it just to mend the toaster.

Law matters, because it keeps us safe, because it protects our most fundamental rights and freedoms, and because it is the foundation of our democracy.

If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them.

Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail, -- strength and defense, though something of an incumbrance.

Education and justice are democracy's only life insurance.

We all have more at stake in the rules of the game than we do in the outcomes of the game. When that changes, that's when you begin to lose democracy.