Barbara Amiel Quotes

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

Human rights and rule of law are inseparably connected.

The judicial branch has, in its finest hours, stood firmly on the side of individuals against those who would trample their rights.

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.

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

I've become very fond of the law. I've always been an advocate for justice, which occasionally the law brings to light.

If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.

We've begun to get justice.

Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.

Freedom depends upon something. The rule of law.

The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.

I am anxious that the Justice Department should be a force for the protection of the people's liberties.

I Burchard, bishop of the church of Worms, on account of the strenuous lamentations of the wretched, and the frequent schemes of those many people who tear like dogs at the familia of St. Peter, imposing various laws on them and oppressing the weaker among them by their judgments; with the advice of the clergy and knights and the whole familia I have ordered that these laws be written down, so that no advocate or agent or official or any other person among them may impose on the familia anything new; rather, let it be known before everyone that there is one and the same law, common to rich and poor alike.

All persons are equal before the law, so that no person can hold another as a slave.

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

Justice is the great interest of man on earth.

The institutions under which we live, my countrymen, secure each person in the perfect enjoyment of all his rights.

The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.

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.

Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious.

They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

Obviously, I'll keep fighting to uphold the Constitution.