Robert Bolt Quotes

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 born from despair of human nature.

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.

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

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

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.

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

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

Preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a basic ideal of any society that purports to be governed by the rule of law.

Law is order, and good law is good order.

Justice is incidental to law and order

In our country the law of the strong does not prevail. The strength of the law prevails.

Law. Law. That is what saves nations from the most imminent dangers.

A fixed rule may give rise to occasional deviations from justice; but these amount to nothing more than the price which every member of the community may be called upon to pay for the advantage of an enlightened code. No laws can be framed sufficiently comprehensive to embrace the infinite varieties of human action …

The Dutch public has always been accustomed to being treated according to the letter of the law.

You can't build a society without law.

The law is the only sure protection of the weak, and the only efficient restraint upon the strong.

Justice is merely incidental to law and order. Law and order is what covers the whole picture. Justice is part of it, but it can't be separated as a single thing.

There can be no civil peace without the rule of law.

We are a country of laws.

I don't think any country can survive as a prosperous and dignified country unless there is rule of law.

In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.

All that the law can do is to shape things so that no injustice shall be done by one to the other, and that each man shall be given the first chance to show the stuff that is in him.

Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.