Rule Law Quotes

Both Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev have law degrees but they do not know what the rule of law means.

When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete.

I will restore a government based on principle and justice.

China is a country ruled by men more than laws.

Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up .... The law ought to be supreme over all.

Ours will neither be a perfect world, nor a world without disagreement and occasional violence. But it will be a world where the overwhelming majority of national leaders will consistently abide by the rule of world law, and those who won't will be dealt with effectively and with due process by the structures of that same world law..

Putting the principle of liberty into practice requires institutions: functional legislatures, government bureaucracies, and full-fledged legal system with police, lawyers, prosecutors, and impartial judges…. And the relevant institutions must be firmly anchored in values: people must believe in the importance of protecting … zones of social and civic life from state interference.

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

Business does not go where there is corruption and the rule of law does not apply.

Establish democracy ... based on human rights as superior to property rights.

No Man ought to be looked upon as guilty, before he has received his judicial Sentence; nor can the Laws deprive him of their Protection, before it is proved that he has forfeited all Right to it.

We are mourning the death of rule of law in Uganda.

China has not established the rule of law and thus there is no justice.

Justice is the great end of civil society.

There is a myth that though we love freedom, others don’t---that our attachment to freedom is a product of our culture---that freedom, democracy, human rights, the rule of law are American values or Western values. Member of Congress, they are not Western values. They are universal values of the human spirit.

The law is the public conscience.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

Not five generations distant, Fijians were cannibalizing each other. The missionaries and the colonial administration imposed a veneer of civilization on their native subjects. However, it is not apparent that they imparted to them any profound understanding of the process involved in the maintenance and upholding of the law.

Men keep their agreements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them; and I shall so frame my laws that it will be evident to the Athenians that it will be for their interest to observe them.

An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market

Any government is free to the people under it where the laws rule and the people are a party to the laws.

Seeking justice is always our goal, but we see many too willing to circumvent that.

Every State is known by the rights it maintains.

He that is for a government of laws is for the government of God. And he that is for a government of man is for government of a beast.

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.