Authority Quote by Helen Keller

When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete... Peace and prosperity, public virtue, victory, everything is in the vigor…

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men,…

— Michel de Montaigne

[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice.

— Edward Gibbon

Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.

— Ayn Rand

When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete.

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

“MOST legislators have been men of inferior capacity whom chance exalted over their fellows, and who took counsel almost exclusively of their own prejudices…

— Montesquieu

“Here one comes upon an all-important English trait: the respect for constituitionalism and legality, the belief in 'the law' as something above the state…

— George Orwell

[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

— Samuel Adams

You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the people --…

— William Allen White

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

— George Hammond

“If citizens cannot trust that laws will be enforced in an evenhanded and honest fashion, they cannot be said to live under the rule…

— Dale Carpenter

The people have the power to redeem the work of fools. Upon the meek the graces shower, it's decreed the people rule.

— Patti Smith