Frederic Bastiat Quotes

Where there is law, and where there is government, there is security.

As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.

The only government that I recognize--and it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its army--is that power thatestablishes justice in the land, never that which establishes injustice.

There can be no liberty without the law.

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

Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.

I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution.

The law is the foundation of our society.

'Fair' is one of the most dangerous concepts in politics. Since no two people are likely to agree on what is 'fair,' this means that there must be some third party with power - the government - to impose its will. The road to despotism is paved with 'fairness'.

What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you don't obey, it will compel you by force - all governments, all law and authority finally rest on force and violence, on punishment or fear of punishment.

Life isn't fair, but government must be.

The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom may be maintained.

As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.

Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.

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.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

The rule of law is the basis for any democracy. And without the rule of law in democracy, you have chaos.

The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.

We Mexicans believe in the force of the law, not in the law of force

I would no more admit the rebels to control these States than I would sail a ship with the mutinous part of a crew, and confine those who were faithful to the captain in the hold or put them in irons.

Law is order, and good law is good order.

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

Law is the strongest link between man and freedom.

Justice is incidental to law and order