Rule Of Law Quotes - Page 3

• Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.

  Bob Woodward

  Law, Presidential, Criminals

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• When in all the nations of the world the rule of law is the darling of the leaders and the plague of the people, we ought to begin to recognize this.

  Howard Zinn

  Law, People, Leader

  Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove (2011). “Voices of a People's History of the United States”, p.484, Seven Stories Press

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• Our goals are the same as those of the U.N.'s founders, who sought to replace a world at war with one where the rule of law would prevail, where human rights were honored, where development would blossom, where conflict would give way to freedom from violence.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Rights, Law

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

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• I don't think any country can survive as a prosperous and dignified country unless there is rule of law.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Country, Thinking, Law

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• 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.

  Robert Menzies

  Character, Blow, Law

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• Democrats have a problem if they go one way and don't emphasize the rule of law and only have compassion. The Republicans have a problem if they only go with the rule of law. There has to be a balance.

  Matthew Dowd

  Compassion, Law, Balance

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• I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different roles to play in pursuit of the larger purpose, realizing the rule of law. ... This is not to deny that the will to win drives those efforts. ... Rather, it is simply to insist that ultimately, neither the accused nor society is served unless the integrity of the system is set above the expedient purposes of either side.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Integrity, Winning, Views

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• Judicial activists are nothing short of radicals in robes--contemptuous of the rule of law, subverting the Constitution at will, and using their public trust to impose their policy preferences on society. In fact, no radical political movement has been more effective in undermining our system of government than the judiciary. And with each Supreme Court term, we hold our collective breath hoping the justices will do no further damage, knowing full well they will disappoint. Such is the nature of judicial tyranny.

  Mark Levin

  Law, Knowing, Government

  Mark R. Levin (2006). “Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America”, p.22, Regnery Publishing

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• If you accept that conservatism equals constitutionalism - and I do - well, then, where do we start? We do we start reinstituting all of these values, the morality in the culture, in our society; the respect for rule of law. And then you look at what we're up against, an entire Democrat Party.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Law, Culture

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.

  James Callaghan

  Party, Government, Law

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• Human security comes only with human rights and the rule of law. Human rights are the basis for creating strong and accountable states without which there can be no political stability or social progress.

  Irene Khan

  Strong, Rights, Law

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• Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs ... Ours are not Western values. They are the universal values of the human spirit and anywhere, any time, ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same. Freedom not tyranny. Democracy not dictatorship. The rule of law not the rule of the secret police. The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defence and our first line of attack.

  Tony Blair

  Gun, Law, Western Values

  Address to Congress Accepting Congressional Gold Medal, delivered 17 July 2003, Joint Session of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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• Fear is the State's psychological weapon of choice to frighten citizens into sacrificing their basic freedoms and rule-of-law protections in exchange for the security promised by their all-powerful government.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Fear, Powerful, Sacrifice

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• A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.

  Nick Rahall

  Equality, Law, People

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• [Helmut] Kohl said Europe must return to being a community committed to stability and the rule of law.

  Martin Schulz

  Europe, Law, Community

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In some ways, the challenges are even more daunting than they were at the peak of the cold war. Not only do we continue to face grave nuclear threats, but those threats are being compounded by new weapons developments, new violence within States and new challenges to the rule of law.

  Kofi Annan

  Peace, War, Law

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• Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle.

  Chris Matthews

  Order, Law, Unity

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• It's a strange thing, we think that law brings order. Law doesn't. How do we know that law does not bring order? Look around us. We live under the rule of law. Notice how much order we have?

  Howard Zinn

  Thinking, Order, Law

  Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove (2011). “Voices of a People's History of the United States”, p.487, Seven Stories Press

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• Protests are fine. But in South Carolina we believe in the rule of law, and the people of this state should never doubt that as governor, I will enforce it.

  Nikki Haley

  Believe, Law, People

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• At least Romney and McCain, they respect the rule of law. At least Romney and McCain, they understand their limitations.

  Barack Obama

  Law, Mccain, Romney

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Truth-telling to Congress and the public is not disloyal in America: it is an expression of the higher loyalty officials owe to the Constitution, the rule of law, and the sovereign public. It is a courageous, patriotic, and effective way to serve our country. The time to speak out is now.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Loyalty, Country, Time

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• In a free country, America, or India, and Japan, and many places, democracy country, free country, but still within the sort of rule of law, some injustice, some sort of problems, some discrimination, and also some sort of scandals or the corruptions. These things, you see, they are always in my mind, I think many people agree, lack of moral principle.

  Dalai Lama

  Country, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.kpbs.org

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• Power... Military success is not sufficient to win: economic development, institution-building and the rule of law, promoting internal reconciliation, good governance, providing basic services to the people, training and equipping indigenous military and police forces, strategic communications, and more of these, along with security, are essential ingredients for long-term success.

  Robert M. Gates

  Peace, Military, Communication

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• For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very English, or at least Anglo-Saxon, feel to it. It was later, through Hayek's masterpieces "The Constitution of Liberty" and "Law, Legislation and Liberty" that I really came to think this principle as having wider application.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  "The Path to Power". Book by Margaret Thatcher, 1995.

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• For 60 years, since World War II, we have been trying to create a rules-based system, a global economic system. We understand that what makes our economy function is what we call the rule of law, and what is true domestically is also true internationally. It is important to have rules by which we govern our relations with other countries.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Country, War, Important

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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