Common Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you…

— Salman Rushdie

Nothing distinguishes more clearly conditions in a free country from those in a country under arbitrary government than the observance in the former of…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Where there is no common power, there is no law

— Thomas Hobbes

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and…

— Samuel Johnson

What is crucial is for any and all countries to be under the rule of law, not the rule by force, which we absolutely…

— Fumio Kishida

Countries which enjoy the highest level of peace, happiness and prosperity are the ones where the law least interfered with private affairs.

— Frederic Bastiat

I don't think any country can survive as a prosperous and dignified country unless there is rule of law.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without…

— Olaf Stapledon

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

— Bertrand Russell

The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable…

— Charles Grandison Finney

There is no country in this world that is immune to violating human rights.

— Linda Sarsour

No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged.

— Arthur Balfour