Cecil B. DeMille Quotes

Law is the strongest link between man and freedom.

Where there is no law, there is no freedom.

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

Liberty—liberty within the law—and civilization are inseparable.

Where there is law, and where there is government, there is security.

Human rights and rule of law are inseparably connected.

Societies cannot move forward without law, and our constitution is the cornerstone of the law and our National Assembly is its umbrella and fortress.

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.

The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.

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.

Freedom depends upon something. The rule of law.

Law is the greatest human invention. All the rest give man mastery over his world, but law gives him mastery over himself.

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

The principal end a prince was made for is to take care, that every one should have his rights. This ought to engage him to study not only the science of those great civilians, who ascend to the first principles of law, which regulate human society, and are the basis as it were of government and politics; but also that part of the law, which descends to the affairs of particular persons. This branch is generally left for the gentlemen of the long robe, and not admitted into the education of princes, though they are every day to pass judgment upon the fortunes, liberties, lives, honor, and reputation of their subjects. Princes are continually talked to of valour and liberality; but if justice do not regulate these two qualities, they degenerate into the most odious vices. Without justice valour does nothing but destroy; and liberality is only a foolish profuseness. Justice keeps all in order, and contains within bounds him, who distributes it, as well as those, to whom it is distributed.

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.

The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence.

The law is the foundation of our society.

According to the laws and constitution of the people, which I [the Lord] have suffered to be established, and should be maintained for the rights and protection of all flesh, according to just and holy principles.

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

So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.

Law and its instrument, government, are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us, but all of us, unless we live the lives of mud turtles, frequently find them arrayed against us.

The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected.