Aristocracy Quote by Henry James Sumner Maine

To summarize: Americans have one of the greatest legal systems, but not a monopoly of the sense of justice, which is universal; nor have…

— Earl Warren

“But even democracy ruins itself by excess—of democracy. Its basic principle is the equal right of all to hold office and determine public policy.…

— Will Durant

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.Aristocracy with the meaning - the best are ruling.Peoples do never govern themselves. That lunacy…

— Joseph Goebbels

It's come around to that point of view at the end of a long evolutionary process, in which the rule of law has slowly…

— Matt Taibbi

When in all the nations of the world the rule of law is the darling of the leaders and the plague of the people,…

— Howard Zinn

Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the…

— James Madison

The rule of law does not guarantee freedom, since general law as well as personal edicts can be tyrannical. But increasing reliance on the…

— Milton Friedman

“But even democracy ruins itself by excess—of democracy. Its basic principle is the equal right of all to hold office and determine public policy.…

— Will Durant

“Although a legal system is rooted in the values of its society, it also has an independent dynamic, with principles, language, and rules of…

— Joel P. Trachtman

“Rules, conventions, morals, reality itself: all exist so long as their existence is convenient to the preservation of power. Otherwise, they, like all else,…

— Omar El Akkad

“It had always been thus, one law for the rulers, another for those they ruled. “Can”

— David Penny