Choices Quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower

The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if…

— Roger Nash Baldwin

We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.

— William Sloane Coffin

Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.

— R.J. Rushdoony

Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from…

— Henry Brooks Adams

Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.

— Ernst Haeckel

I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.

— Henry Miller

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. We may study the laws of matter at…

— Henry David Thoreau

Certain other societies may respect the rule of force--we respect the rule of law.

— John F. Kennedy

Civilization involves subjection of force to reason, and the agency of this subjection is law.

— Roscoe Pound

Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.

— Jules Verne