Kerry Kennedy Quotes

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

I fought for the rule of law in America.

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.

The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements.

I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things and bring us closer to the ideals expressed in our founding documents.

As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.

Preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a basic ideal of any society that purports to be governed by the rule of law.

Freedom depends upon something. The rule of law.

We believe that all governments necessarily require civil officers and magistrates to enforce the laws of the same; and that such as will administer the law in equity and justice should be sought for and upheld by the voice of the people.

In many parts of Italy the only revolutionary factor would be the full application of the rule of law.

Justice in this country is an insurance policy. It’s not something that we’re supposed to get sometimes.

An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental

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

Justice is incidental to law and order

In our country the law of the strong does not prevail. The strength of the law prevails.

Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not defied the law.

From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes, a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in Scotland is more flexible than in England. The truth however is, that an elementary difference exists in the public feelings of the two nations quite as great as in the idioms of their respective dialects. The English are a justice-loving people, according to charter and statute; the Scotch are a wrong-resenting race, according to right and feeling: and the character of liberty among them takes its aspect from that peculiarity.

Law. Law. That is what saves nations from the most imminent dangers.

The most difficult thing to build up is the rule of law. America already had it when their nation began.

… the magistrate should know what law he is to administer, that the subject should know under what law he is to live.

I became more set than ever in my distrust of those men, whether businessmen or lawyers, judges, legislators or executive officers, who seek to make the Constitution a fetish for the prevention of the work of social reform..

When we achieve human rights and human dignity for all people - they will build a peaceful, sustainable, and just world.

Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.