Matthew Dowd Quotes

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Fairness and justice will be the base of my government.

A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.

Often, we take stability - peace in terms of security and economic activity - to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar of rule of law and respect for human rights, because no country can long remain prosperous without that third pillar.

Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct

Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations.

Justice remains the greatest power on earth. To that tremendous power alone will we submit.

Justice is the one thing you should always find.

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Everybody wants to see justice done, to somebody else.

Good, healthy democratic societies are built on three pillars: there's peace and stability, economic development, and respect for rule of law and human rights. But often, we take stability - peace in terms of security and economic activity - to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar of rule of law and respect for human rights, because no country can long remain prosperous without that third pillar.

Over my tenure as governor, I have come not only to respect the political muscle of the Federation; I've come to respect the brains. All of us depend on your efforts and energies.

Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto.

If we do our job right, the Supreme Court won't be made up of men and women who are on the side of the little guy or the big guy; rather, the Supreme Court will be made up of men and women who are on the side of the law and the Constitution.

Justice wields an erratic sword, grants mercy to fortunate few. Yet if man doesn't fight for her, 'tis chaos he's left to.

Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the interests of law.

A just system must generate its own support.

The rule of law should be respected so that the basic structure of our democracy is maintained and further strengthened.

Obviously I prefer freedom, but I know, and I think all history has told us, that freedom cannot flow from anarchy and disorder.

Justice is that system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes the group strong and progressive rather than weak and retrogressive whereas injustice is a system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes a nation weak and retrogressive rather than strong and progressive.

There can be no prosperity without law and order.

We all have more at stake in the rules of the game than we do in the outcomes of the game. When that changes, that's when you begin to lose democracy.

Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.

Liberals despise the rule of law because it interferes with their ability to rule by mob. They love to portray themselves as the weak taking on the powerful. But it is the least powerful who suffer the most once the rule of law is gone.

Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.