War Quote by Roger Scruton

“Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be…

— James Madison

“The one thing our nation needs desperately is law-abiding citizens, not just those who abide by human laws but those who abide by divine…

— David Pawson

“laws for the sake of controlling people rather than protecting them.”

— Chris Dietzel

“We know that laws ought to be obeyed only if they come out of people's sense of justice, not because the state needs them…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed…

— Immanuel Kant

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law;…

— Edmund Burke

“The law perverted! The law — and, in its wake, all the collective forces of the nation — the law, I say, not only…

— Frédéric Bastiat

“Without law in some form, and, also, without butting up against that law, we cannot move forward easily or naturally. We have to have…

— Richard Rohr

[A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to…

— James Madison

“The consequence of this, morally, is that the individual is of less significance than the state. The individual’s empirical, day-to-day interests are of a…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“All governments, even these precious “democracies,” derive all their power by force. Do something the government doesn’t want, like, say, cross the street against…

— S. Evan Townsend

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who…

— Edmund Burke