Elena Kagan Quotes

Freedom depends upon something. The rule of law.

Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the rule of law.

The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.

Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman.

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

I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.

And only law can give us freedom.

Law is the strongest link between man and freedom.

We are a country based on the rule of law.

Believing in and practising the principles of the rule of law is, with our liberty and democracy, among the most powerful weapons we have. It is less effective if we blur its clarity and we should do this as sparingly as possible.

Life in America shows that liberty, paired with law, is not to be feared.

Human rights and rule of law are inseparably connected.

The last stop to protect rights and liberties is the Supreme Court.

Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!

Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.

The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty.

The Supreme Court is the last refuge in America for our rights and liberties.

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.

Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.

Obviously, I'll keep fighting to uphold the Constitution.

My father thought, and now I think too, that the system of democracy is entirely based upon the system of justice. If we do not have a system of justice that people believe in, the system of democracy will fail.

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.

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.