John Locke Quotes

Law is the strongest link between man and freedom.

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.

Liberty—liberty within the law—and civilization are inseparable.

Good government is an empire of laws.

Freedom depends upon something. The rule of law.

There is no king where there is no law.

We all must follow the rule of law, not the rule of aldermen.

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.

Laws form the most important portion of a nation's history.

Our government depends upon the rule of law.

So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.

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.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

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 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.

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

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.

We Mexicans believe in the force of the law, not in the law of force

And only law can give us freedom.

Law is the greatest human invention. All the rest give man mastery over his world, but law gives him mastery over himself.

Wherever law ends, tyranny begins.

The principal end a prince was made for is to take care, that every one should have his rights. This ought to engage him to study not only the science of those great civilians, who ascend to the first principles of law, which regulate human society, and are the basis as it were of government and politics; but also that part of the law, which descends to the affairs of particular persons. This branch is generally left for the gentlemen of the long robe, and not admitted into the education of princes, though they are every day to pass judgment upon the fortunes, liberties, lives, honor, and reputation of their subjects. Princes are continually talked to of valour and liberality; but if justice do not regulate these two qualities, they degenerate into the most odious vices. Without justice valour does nothing but destroy; and liberality is only a foolish profuseness. Justice keeps all in order, and contains within bounds him, who distributes it, as well as those, to whom it is distributed.