Cease Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Where laws end, tyranny begins.

— William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

— Henry Fielding

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

— Herbert Hoover

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

— John Locke

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

Supreme power rests in the will of all or of the majority.

— Georg Buchner

One with the law is a majority.

— Calvin Coolidge

Once the law is broken with impunity, each man regains the right to any means he deems proper or necessary in order to defend…

— Allan Bloom

Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness.

— Amity Shlaes

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

— Adlai E. Stevenson

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law;…

— Edmund Burke

The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of…

— Lysander Spooner