The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.
He who obeys God's laws finds him a father. He who disobeys them, finds him a judge.
The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and analysis. But it may be said that in a democratic society, law is the form which free men give to justice.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.
A government of laws, and not of men.
The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.
A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.