Break Quote by Allan Bloom

Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

— Thomas Jefferson

[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.

— John Locke

When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of…

— Leon Jaworski

The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.

— Henry David Thoreau

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add…

— Thomas Jefferson

Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence of the…

— Algernon Sidney

The constitution expects every man to do his duty; and when he fails the law urges him; or should he do too much; the…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

“One of the first motives to civil society, and which becomes one of its fundamental rules, is that no man should be judge in…

— Edmund Burke

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

— Robert Kennedy

Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.

— J. G. Holland

If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.

— Thomas Jefferson

Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.

— Anonymous