Believe Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.

— James Bovard

I believe, assume the power to decide more political than legal issues in nature, the people naturally focus less on the law and more…

— Sam Brownback

We have retained the forms and phrases of a republic, but in reality we are living under an oligarchy, not of courtesan, but of…

— Frank Chodorov

No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law…

— Anonymous

No republic can long exist unless a substantial equality in the wealth of citizens prevails.

— Edward Bellamy

It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.

— Richard Henry Lee

Were it not that it might require too long a discussion, it would not be difficult to demonstrate that a large and well-organized republic…

— Alexander Hamilton

In fact, the legal system is in part responsible for their very size and growth. And too often when the individual finds himself in…

— Edward Kennedy

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

— Felix Adler

To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an improper profit…

— Theodore Roosevelt

A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.

— Charles Darwin

Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.

— Thomas More