Common Quote by Walter Lippmann

“But a society in which pluralism is not undergirded by some shared values and held together by some measure of mutual trust simply cannot…

— John W. Gardner

An orderly society cannot exist if every man may decide which laws he will obey.

— Lewis F. Powell, Jr

Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a…

— Mary Parker Follett

“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

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

— James F. Cooper

Societies cannot move forward without law, and our constitution is the cornerstone of the law and our National Assembly is its umbrella and fortress.

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

No one can act alone in the name of all and no one can accept the anarchy of a society without rules.

— Jacques Chirac

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

— Robert Owen

“Law and order are everywhere the law and order which protect the established hierarchy.”

— Lee Child

Let us get on with creating the democratic and pluralistic society that we say we are.

— Barbara Mikulski

By nature, every individual has the right to govern himself; and governments, whether founded on majorities or minorities, must derive their right from the…

— John C. Calhoun

We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a…

— Edward Bernays