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Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it.

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule of law.

Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice.

In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out capital punishment. The right to take human life belongs to the state. Not so in societies where weak courts and poor law enforcement are combined with intractable structural injustices.

In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.

In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.