Rousas John Rushdoony Quotes

Let's create a legal system that can work.

Where there's no law, there's no bread.

It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.

We are a nation of laws.

I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.

The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code.

Preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a basic ideal of any society that purports to be governed by the rule of law.

The unchanging character of law is the only basis on which continuous action can rest. Without it man would be but as the traveler over endless morasses; the builder on quicksands; the mariner without compass or rudder, driven successively whithersoever changing winds may blow

A government of laws without men is as visionary as a government of men without laws.

The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.

Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.

We are a country of laws.

Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country.

The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of disuse of the law.

Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.

Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.

People must be changed...goodness cannot be legislated.

Only man has law. Law must be built, do you understand me? You must build the law.

Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.

Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: 'You delight in laying down laws. Yet you delight more in breaking them.

According to the laws and constitution of the people, which I [the Lord] have suffered to be established, and should be maintained for the rights and protection of all flesh, according to just and holy principles.

In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.

We see every day that our very laws have both sides of the fence.

The Common lawes of the Realme should by no means be delayed for the law is the surest sanctuary, that a man should take, and the strongest fortresse to protect the weakest of all, lex et tutissima cassis.