Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

What is going to rule our great commonwealth, the mob or the law?

There is no king where there is no law.

We all must follow the rule of law, not the rule of aldermen.

Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

Power is the flower of organization.

Law is the rudder of the ship of state.

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

No, I think that we've got a basic discrepancy here between the rule of law versus the rule of man.

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.

The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.

In America power comes in the form of law and money.

A political society cannot endure without a supreme will somewhere.

The organization of order is not the exclusive monopoly of the State

One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates.

Liberty unregulated by law becomes anarchy.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it...People need somebody to watch over them.... Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

I established law and justice in the land.

I know no human being exempt from the law. The law is the security of the people of England; it is the security of every person that is governed, and of every person that governs.

… the magistrate should know what law he is to administer, that the subject should know under what law he is to live.

Both Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev have law degrees but they do not know what the rule of law means.

I was raised to believe nobody is above the law - especially not a president.