Rule Of Law Quotes

“A government of laws, and not of men.”

"Wherever law ends, tyranny begins."

John Locke

"Be you never so high, the law is above you."

Thomas Fuller

"A government of laws, and not of men."

"The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall."

Heraclitus

"In America the law is king."

"The police must obey the law while enforcing the law."

Earl Warren

"The law, in all vicissitudes of government, fluctuations of the passions, or flights of enthusiasm, will preserve a steady undeviating course; it will not bend to the uncertain wishes, imaginations, and wanton tempers of men."

"No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Our nation is founded on the principle that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny."

"The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"It is more proper that law should govern than any one of the citizens."

"Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!"

Robert Bolt

“No one is above the law.”

Legal Maxim

“No free man shall be seized or imprisoned except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land.”

Magna Carta

"No man is above the law and no man is below it."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Any government is free to the people under it where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws."

William Penn

“Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap.”