Authority Quote by Samuel Johnson

States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law.

— Kenneth Waltz

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

— Rene Descartes

A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak…

— Primo Levi

There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things.

— James Inhofe

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

— Thomas Paine

“No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the…

— Mark Twain

What is crucial is for any and all countries to be under the rule of law, not the rule by force, which we absolutely…

— Fumio Kishida

This country does not punish its political enemies. What this country ensures is that no one is above the law.

— Jeff Sessions

With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dictates…

— Kenneth Waltz

A country is not only what it does but what it tolerates,

— Kurt Tucholsky

Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but…

— Aristotle