Jacques Chirac Quotes

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

It's about living in a world with rules, or a world without rules.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is, in fact, the essence of civil society.

Liberty unregulated by law becomes anarchy.

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

A libertarian is someone who can believe that the police are no more than a gang of thugs without realizing that in the absence of police, thugs will gather into gangs.

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.

Obviously I prefer freedom, but I know, and I think all history has told us, that freedom cannot flow from anarchy and disorder.

Mankind can live free in a society hemmed in by laws, but we have yet to find a historical example of mankind living free in lawless anarchy.

The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

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.

Societies depend on agreed rules.

I'm not an anarchist. I believe in government.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time.

Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette.

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

Better a hundred years of tyranny than one day of anarchy.

Law is order, and good law is good order.

To the laws all men show respect and deference, as without them peace and harmony would be supplanted by anarchy and terror; human laws being instituted for the express purpose of regulating our interests as individuals and nations, between man and man; and divine laws given of heaven, prescribing rules on spiritual concerns, for faith and worship

Anyone who takes it upon himself ... to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.

There is no king where there is no law.