James Bovard Quotes

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

We must bring the rule of law to its full fruition in the United States, and when we do, we will have achieved the goals and rhetoric of our Founding Fathers.

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

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

There are not many countries where a non-citizen with a fourth—grade education can sue the President. That is our great gift to the world. We’re strong enough to say our system can handle it.

We believe that all governments necessarily require civil officers and magistrates to enforce the laws of the same; and that such as will administer the law in equity and justice should be sought for and upheld by the voice of the people.

We have a great many chiefs and headmen but, be they ever so great, they must all abide by the laws ... These laws are not made for any person in particular but for all.

When those who uphold the law are strong, the state is strong. When they are weak, the state is weak

Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.

At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.

The rule of law, and the idea that it applies to everyone regardless of what office that person might hold, is the chief ingredient in our democracy.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

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

The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'

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.

I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised.

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.

At a time when our moral standing in the world has been weakened by a rubber stamp Justice Department that placed the Bush Administration above the law, we now need someone who is objective and independent. And, make no mistake, Eric Holder is independent.

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

The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things and bring us closer to the ideals expressed in our founding documents.

If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.

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

Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up .... The law ought to be supreme over all.

Freedom depends upon something. The rule of law.