Abraham Lincoln Quotes

We all must follow the rule of law, not the rule of aldermen.

The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

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

We are a country based on the rule of law.

We rely on the rule of law. I think we've lost touch with that concept in Washington.

For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may be truly said, "that the magistrate is a speaking law, and the law is a silent magistrate.

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

Liberty unregulated by law becomes anarchy.

The law has to be, in part, a teacher.

Nothing is so faulty as those laws which correct faults. He who obeys them because they are just obeys a justice which is imaginary and not the essence of law; it is quite self-contained, it is law and nothing more.

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

Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.

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.

Many people feel that we need the rule of law to eliminate our problems. But is it more laws that we need? We have many laws - thousands upon thousands of them - but they are constantly being broken.

I'm a big fan of the rule of law.

The law is the foundation of our society.

The nation state law has nothing controversial.

Our government depends upon the rule of law.

We all want and need the rule of law to be upheld.

The first and most important component in nation building is LAW. Law is the source of national Cohesion.