Agency Quote by Roscoe Pound

The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation…

— Anonymous

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence - it is force.

— George Washington

The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.

— Walter Raleigh

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all…

— John Locke

“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

It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that…

— Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Certain other societies may respect the rule of force--we respect the rule of law.

— John F. Kennedy

Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is…

— Nathaniel Branden

Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.

— Frank Herbert