Law Quote by Solon Download Open image “Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.” — Solon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Law People Wells
Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law — Solon Copy Share Image
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates. — Solon Copy Share Image
No society can exist if respect for the law does not to some extent prevail; but the surest way to have the laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality are in contradiction, the citizen finds himself in the cruel dilemma of either losing his moral sense or of losing respect for the law, two evils of… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share
The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is of infinite importance to the public that the acts of magistrates should not only be substantially good, but also that they should… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a certain degree, but the safest way to make them respected is to make… — Bastiat, Frederick Copy Share Image
Society will be obeyed; if you refuse obedience, you must take the consequences. Society has only one law, and that is custom. Even religion… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
“A civilized society is formed when every individual in that society are bound to obey the rules and regulation which is for the benefit… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
The government has a responsibility to protect society, to help maintain society. That's why we have laws... The rule of law creates a set… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; [...] magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them. — George Mason Copy Share Image
Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The authority of society is imposed not arbitrarily or officially, but naturally. And it is because of this fact that its effect on the… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law — Solon Copy Share Image
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates. — Solon Copy Share Image
If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards,… — Solon Copy Share Image
“The New Dimension is peaceful, and all work here just as they do on Earth. It’s a place where learning, knowledge and wisdom are essential to that work. It is not corrupt like the Earth Plane, and there they are free from all of the corruption that exists on Earth today. We created this New Dimension for growing and learning,… — Solon Copy Share
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left… — Abul A'la Maududi Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought to favor this right and, so far as it can, see that the largest possible number among the masses of the population prefer to own property… But if the productive activity of the multitude can be… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share
Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac. — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this; secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece of wood? He has a right to use his knife to cut his meat, a fork to hold it; may a patentee take from him the right to combine their use on the same subject? Such… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share