Joseph P. Bradley Quotes

You can't build a society without law.

Rule of law is the most important element in any civil society.

Societies depend on agreed rules.

We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted and what is prohibited. We know that it is law which enables men to live together, that creates order out of chaos. We know that law is the glue that holds civilization together.

The law is the foundation of our society.

Without law, without the social stability it provides, there can't be contracts and deals, there can't be chamber meetings, there can't be good jobs and safe families.

We are nothing but by the law.

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.

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

There can be no liberty without the law.

Societies cannot move forward without law, and our constitution is the cornerstone of the law and our National Assembly is its umbrella and fortress.

The government has a responsibility to protect society, to help maintain society. That's why we have laws... The rule of law creates a set of standards for our behavior.

Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

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

Law is the strongest link between man and freedom.

The first duty of law is to keep sound the society it serves

The rule of law is crucial to a civilized society - so we should go out of our way to uphold and strengthen it to the extent possible.

Law is just one public institution, but it is a cornerstone of society. When law goes, everything goes.

The first and most important component in nation building is LAW. Law is the source of national Cohesion.

Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.

Law and its instrument, government, are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us, but all of us, unless we live the lives of mud turtles, frequently find them arrayed against us.

The law, that is what makes men stay honest.

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked.