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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.
All repressive laws must be revoked, and laws introduced to protect the rights of the people.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.
If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.
The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.
A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.