Rule of Law Quotes

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“While we diminish the stimulant of fear, we must increase to prisoners the incitements of hope, in proportion as we extinguish the terrors of the law, we should awaken and strengthen the control of the conscience.” -- Dorothea Dix

"It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it."
--Carl Van Doren

"World federation is an ideal that will not die. More and more people are coming to realize that peace must be more than an interlude if we are to survive; that peace is a produce of law and order; that law is essential if the force of arms is not to rule the world." -- Justice William O. Douglas

There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights.
Senator Dick Durbin

"A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive." -- Albert Einstein

"There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government."
-- Albert Einstein

"With all my heart I believe that the world's present system of sovereign nations can only lead to barbarism, war and inhumanity, and that only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community."
-- Albert Einstein

"The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower There can be no peace without law. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

"... we have been warned by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself ... There must be law, steadily invoked and respected by all nations, for without law, the world promises only such meager justice as the pity of the strong upon the weak."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"I prefer law to war under all circumstances." -- Benjamin Ferencz, Nuremberg prosecutor

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