No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You can't build a society without law.
Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is, in fact, the essence of civil society.
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Societies cannot move forward without law, and our constitution is the cornerstone of the law and our National Assembly is its umbrella and fortress.
Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
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