We cannot forget the need to use the law as a shield, but we must remember other forces of the law.
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.
To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.
It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.
Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.
In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just for some.
Law is mind without reason.
We want laws to be applied predictably.
A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
What is crucial is there be laws.
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