American Quote by David K. Shipler

“Constitutional Law is merely politics made incomprehensible to the common man.”

— Lawrence Goldstone

An Affront to the Rule of Law and to the Constitution Itself

— John Boehner

Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the interests of…

— Fredrik Bajer

“Laws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action.”

— George Hammond

“We know that laws ought to be obeyed only if they come out of people's sense of justice, not because the state needs them…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“Because the common law was not simply the creature of political power-holders, it became another of the forces for separation of powers and of…

— Thomas Sowell

“Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to go back into oneself…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The nation, the Supreme Court has said, has “no right to expect that it will always have wise and humane rulers, sincerely attached to…

— James MacGregor Burns

“It was the principle of this Court that deterrent laws, however strict, are useless without positive moral discipline; that the happiness of citizens depends,…

— Isocrates

“Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man,…

— Barack Obama

“Anyone who writes a law that cannot be easily understood by an average citizen is not worthy of leadership. The Constitution, which was written…

— Ben Carson

“The law is what powerful men say it shall be.”

— Philippa Gregory