Sam Houston Quotes

But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.

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

I think we live in a country that sometimes forgets how effective the rule of law is, perhaps because our governments have often found it inconvenient.

Our country is governed by the rule of law and our procedures are based on law.

We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.

You have a good judicial system in the U.S., as you have learned from the Nixon-Watergate period.

Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy.

We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.

Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.

The only legitimacy we have is the law—not what politicians tell you …. The legal system in this country is what distinguishes us from every other attempt at Republican Democracy that failed.

The American people must be able to trust that their courts and law enforcement will uphold, protect, and defend their constitutional rights.

No one is above the law, not even the President.

Our government depends upon the rule of law.

The Attorney General is not above the law.

We rely on the rule of law. I think we've lost touch with that concept in Washington.

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

No, I think that we've got a basic discrepancy here between the rule of law versus the rule of man.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gateway for them to have access to the third branch of government.

No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.

Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functioning legal system.

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.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

What is a Rechtsstaat? It is obedience to the existing law.