Action Quote by Rudolf Steiner

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

— John Locke

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

— Henry Fielding

Where laws end, tyranny begins.

— William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

“Laws are made for one purpose only (...) to hold us in check when our desires grow immoderate. As long as our desires are…

— J.M. Coetzee

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

— Woodrow Wilson

Law hath dominion over all things, over universal mind and matter; For there are reciprocities of rights, which no creature can gainsay.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

“[W]hen "the rule of law" becomes absolutized and everything is done by the book or the computer, people call out in desperation for the…

— Alan W. Watts

There is no end to the laws, and no beginning to the execution of them

— Mark Twain

“We must abandon our belief that human choice denigrates the Rule of Law.”

— Philip K. Howard

There are ideas that exist in our minds that can be accounted for by no established laws

— Charles Brockden Brown

Ordinary human laws are the means - however imperfect - by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.

— Russell Kirk

The law is not an end in itself, nor does it provide ends. It is preeminently a means to serve what we think is…

— William J. Brennan