Rule of Law Quotes

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“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.” -- John Locke Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins. -- John Locke

"Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy." -- Thurgood Marshall

"Liberty is the right to do as the law permits."
-- Montesquieu French jurist (1689-1755)

"If heads of states fail to seize the opportunity of our entry into the third millennium to provide for a better government of planet Earth, history will not forgive them -- if there is a history." -- Robert Muller

"I have long believed that the only way peace can be achieved is through world government." -- Jawaharlal Nehru

However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable.
-- John B. Orr

We are privileged to have the opportunity of contributing to the achievement of the goal of the abolition of war and its replacement by world law. I am confident that we shall succeed in this great task; that the world community will thereby be freed not only from the suffering caused by war but also through the better use of the earth's resources, of the discoveries of scientists, and of the efforts of mankind, from hunger, disease, illiteracy, and fear; and that we shall in the course of time be enabled to build a world characterized by economic, political, and social justice for all human beings and a culture worthy of man's intelligence. -- Linus Pauling

"Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it." -- William Penn

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.
-- Pope John Paul II

The international community should support a system of laws to regularize international relations and maintain the peace in the same manner that law governs national order."
-- Pope John Paul II

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