Quotes about Law

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure

For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

Scarcely any law of our Redeemer is more openly transgressed, or more industriously evaded, than that by which he commands his followers to forgive injuries. Samuel

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression.

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.