Roy Moore Quotes
No, I think that we've got a basic discrepancy here between the rule of law versus the rule of man.
Moore, Roy. Interview by Brian Lamb. Q&A, C-SPAN, 19 June 2005.
The conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln were tried, found guilty, sentenced and hanged by a military tribunal. Not everyone agreed that such a process was lawful or desirable. Bates believed also that the effect was to make martyrs of the conspirators.
Three Chicago Aldermen had marched on an art school demanding that a painting they found offensive be removed from public display. The police seized the painting, prompting a lawsuit.
1st Baron Macaulay. An autocracy can produce an extensive coherent legal code much easier than a popular government because a few people can make all the decisions and need the final approval of one. The democracy has all the different forces and views of society to contend with and it takes much more to resolve and compromise a final code. The result however is not only fairer generally but is respected more by the people.
Roy Stewart Moore is an American politician who served as the 27th and 31st chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama and was each time removed from that office by the Alabama Court of the Judiciary for judicial misconduct. He was the Republican nominee in the 2017 United States Senate special election in Alabama to fill the seat vacated by Jeff Sessions, but lost to Democratic candidate Doug Jones. Moore ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate in 2020.