Command Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Law is intelligence, whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrongdoing.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands,…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Law ... is perfection of reason.

— Edward Coke

The purpose of law is to prevent the strong always having their way.

— Ovid

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— David L. Bazelon

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them;…

— Arthur Eddington

True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of…

— Livy

Reason and reality are the only means to just laws; mindless wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters.

— Terry Goodkind

The law... dictated by God Himself is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all…

— Alexander Hamilton