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The Rule of Law

«One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law.»
«All free people stand on Reagan's shoulders. His principled policies proved that free markets create wealth, that the rule of law sustains freedom, and that all people everywhere deserve the right to dream, to pursue their dreams, and to govern themselves.»
«Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.»
«As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.»
«It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, ruled us we should have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilized men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence.»
«Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.»
«As long as I have any choice, I will stay only in a country where political liberty, toleration, and equality of all citizens before the law arethe rule.»
«Laws are rules, made by people who govern by means of organized violence, for non-compliance with which the non-complier is subjected to blows, to loss of liberty, or even to being murdered.»
«Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged»
«Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure»

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