Cal Cunningham Quotes

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.

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

You can't build a society without law.

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

I don't want to have anything to do with the government. And yet if we don't have any regulations, there goes civilization, there goes security, and there goes protecting you against what people are going to sell you.

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.

One with the law is a majority.

I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked.

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

The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Law is largely crystallized custom.

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

Order is said to exist where the people of the country have, as a general rule, ceased to prosecute their quarrels by private force, and acquired the habit of referring the decision of their disputes and the redress of their injuries to the public authorities.

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

Law has always served the purpose of condensing and defining the moral wishes and expectations of the community.

The rule of law is crucial to a civilized society - so we should go out of our way to uphold and strengthen it to the extent possible.

Where civil society is welcomed, communities are more safe, more secure, and more prosperous.

Law and order is the first and topmost priority.

The first and most important component in nation building is LAW. Law is the source of national Cohesion.

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

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.

The first requisite of civilization, therefore, is that of justice — that is, the assurance that a law once made will not be broken in favour of an individual. This implies nothing as to the ethical value of such a law.

The essential function of the State is to maintain peace, justice, law, and order, and to protect the individual citizen against aggression, violence, theft, and fraud.