Lord Acton Quotes

It's about living in a world with rules, or a world without rules.

Liberty unregulated by law becomes anarchy.

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.

Liberty implies the absence of arbitrary restraint, not immunity from reasonable regulations...

Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression.

We have introduced a rule of law into many sections of our public life.

No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this principle with all the force of my lungs (which alas! is all too inadequate).

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.

Without freedom you cannot have real peace.

The word 'freedom' means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word 'order.' Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order.

There can be no liberty without the law.

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

The rule of law is the basis for any democracy. And without the rule of law in democracy, you have chaos.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

Liberty regulated by law is the underlying principle of our institutions.

Freedom depends upon something. The rule of law.

Every law is an evil for every law is an infraction of liberty.

Law can never make us as secure as we are when we do not need it.

To the laws all men show respect and deference, as without them peace and harmony would be supplanted by anarchy and terror; human laws being instituted for the express purpose of regulating our interests as individuals and nations, between man and man; and divine laws given of heaven, prescribing rules on spiritual concerns, for faith and worship

We are in bondage to the law so that we may be free.

There is no king where there is no law.

I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away

It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.

Why shouldn't I do what I want to do... I'm an American citizen.