Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.
The government has a responsibility to protect society, to help maintain society. That's why we have laws... The rule of law creates a set of standards for our behavior.
A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
Societies depend on agreed rules.
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the 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.
The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
Rule of law is the most important element in any civil society.
In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.
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