Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Quotes

Law is the strongest link between man and freedom.

Laws form the most important portion of a nation's history.

Our government depends upon the rule of law.

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.

There can be no liberty without the law.

The government has a responsibility to protect society, to help maintain society. That's why we have laws... The rule of law creates a set of standards for our behavior.

Rule of law is the most important element in any civil society.

Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is, in fact, the essence of civil society.

Law is order, and good law is good order.

Where there is no law, there is no freedom.

A fixed rule may give rise to occasional deviations from justice; but these amount to nothing more than the price which every member of the community may be called upon to pay for the advantage of an enlightened code. No laws can be framed sufficiently comprehensive to embrace the infinite varieties of human action …

How a constitution is written can sometimes matter almost as much as what it contains.

We are a constitutional democracy. We must deal with things properly within the framework of the law and then the constitution.

The law is the foundation of our society.

My loyalty is to the Constitution and the rule of law.

The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law begins with us.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

The freedom enjoyed in Western society under the rule of law and constitutional government explains both the quality of its civilization and its wealth.

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.

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

Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.

Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice.

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

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

Justice is incidental to law and order