Care Quote by Thomas Aquinas

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the…

— Thomas Aquinas

A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.

— Chaim Weizmann

Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.

— Denis Diderot

For as good habits of the people require good laws to support them, so laws, to be observed, need good habits on the part…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for…

— Frederic Bastiat

In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of…

— Saul Alinsky

“1951. Law is a rule of conduct enacted by competent authority for the sake of the common good. The moral law presupposes the rational…

— The Catholic Church

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

— Edmund Burke

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

— William Blackstone

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

— Henry Ward Beecher

All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.

— William Blackstone