Arise Quote by Jimmy Carter

The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for…

— Frederic Bastiat

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are…

— Anatole France

“No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a certain degree, but the safest way to make them respected is to make…

— Bastiat, Frederick

For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Law is neither a divine revelation nor a scientific discovery. It is a wholly human creation that includes the contribution of those who claim…

— Alain Supiot

Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.

— David L. Bazelon

The government has a responsibility to protect society, to help maintain society. That's why we have laws... The rule of law creates a set…

— Vint Cerf

“In the first place, it would efface from everybody’s conscience the distinction between justice and injustice. No society can exist unless the laws are…

— Frédéric Bastiat

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 rule of law does not do away with the unequal distribution of wealth and power, but reinforces that inequality with the authority of…

— Howard Zinn

The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have…

— Michel de Montaigne

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