Rousas John Rushdoony Quotes

I'm not an anarchist. I believe in government.

The worst law is better than bureaucratic tyranny.

Liberty unregulated by law becomes anarchy.

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

Where there is no law, there is no freedom.

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.

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.

The Constitution: it's not just a good idea, it's the law.

The Constitution is the bedrock of all our freedoms; guard and cherish it; keep honor and order in your own house; and the republic will endure.

Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if there are rights, there is an authority to which we appeal for them.

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.

If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.

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.

It is the rule of law alone which hinders the rulers from turning themselves into the worst gangsters.

Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

There can be no liberty without the law.

It's about living in a world with rules, or a world without rules.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

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

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.

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.