Ed Davey Quotes

When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies, and the American people.

Albania under law is the motto that leads our vision.

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

The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

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

Liberty regulated by law is the underlying principle of our institutions.

Freedom depends upon something. The rule of law.

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

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

I know no human being exempt from the law. The law is the security of the people of England; it is the security of every person that is governed, and of every person that governs.

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.

I'm a big fan of the rule of law.

Where there is law, and where there is government, there is security.

Our government depends upon the rule of law.

You can't build a society without law.

Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression.

Human rights and rule of law are inseparably connected.

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

It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.

The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty.

The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.

The American people have a right to except that the rule of law will guarantee that even if we don't like the policy, that it's done properly.

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.