If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

America is just downright mean.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

I don’t think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

A precedent embalms a principle.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

Law, without force, is impotent.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

My heart aches for America and its deceived people.

I’m not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it’s almost like we’re living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it’s like a big reality show.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone’s life.

I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

Law is always better than war.

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‚We, the people.‘

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

It was an act of patriotism when we worked to pass a law allowing the prosecution of federal hate crimes in the name of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.