Arthur Scargill Quotes

Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness.

The submission of free people to the executive authority of government, is no more than a compliance with laws which they themselves have enacted.

Freedom depends upon something. The rule of law.

Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.

It is ingrained into our national life that the rule of law makes us free.

...no country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

A [legal] code is almost the only blessing, perhaps it is the only blessing, which absolute governments are better fitted to confer on a nation than popular governments.

… the magistrate should know what law he is to administer, that the subject should know under what law he is to live.

The first duty of a state is to provide for its own conservation. Until that point is secured, it can preserve and protect nothing else. But, if possible, it has greater interest in acting according to strict law than even the subject himself. For if the people see that the law is violated to crush them, they will certainly despise the law. They, or their party, will be easily led to violate it, whenever they can, by all the means in their power. Except in cases of direct war, whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.

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.

We are a country of laws. When you take that away, the consequences are enormous.

I think the Justice Department needs to be the final protector of the people of the United States of America.

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

Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.

We are a nation of laws with respect and recognition of the rule of law. We are not an imperialist government with a monarch abiding by the rule of one man.

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.

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

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.

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

Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern.

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by example. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

Any government is free to the people under it where the laws rule and the people are a party to the laws.

The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court... the affairs of government could not be conducted by democratic standards without it.