Rule
of Law
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The
legislation of the government has been directed
rather to the protection of the rights of money
and property than to the best good of the citizen.
-- Susette
LaFlesche
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“We
want harmonious development, ... We should work
together for more democratic and law-based international
relations, and a harmonious environment in which
countries respect one another, treat one another
as equals, and different cultures can emulate
and interchange with each other.”
--
Li Zhaoxing
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Drawing from the tragic lessons of nuclear atrocities
experienced by the Indigenous Peoples we recognize
that the testing, development and use of nuclear
weapons is a crime against all humanitarian
law…
-- Hilda Lini
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“The
end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but
to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all
the states of created beings capable of law,
where there is no law, there is no freedom.”
-- John Locke
Wherever
Law ends, Tyranny begins.
-- John Locke
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“If
nations could only depend upon fair and impartial
judgments in a world court of law, they would
abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.”
-- Belva Ann
Lockwood
“I
know we can't abolish prejudice through laws,
but we can set up guidelines for our actions
by legislation.”
-- Belva Ann
Lockwood
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It
will be of little avail to the people that the
laws are made by men of their own choice if the
laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read,
or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
-- James Madison |
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I
believe that he who has less in life should
have more in law.
-- Ramon Magsaysay
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"Lawlessness
is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy.
Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse
for either lawlessness or anarchy."
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"Liberty
is the right to do as the law permits."
-- Montesquieu French jurist (1689-1755)
"If
heads of states fail to seize the opportunity
of our entry into the third millennium to provide
for a better government of planet Earth, history
will not forgive them -- if there is a history."
--
Robert Muller
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"I
have long believed that the only way peace can
be achieved is through world government."
-- Jawaharlal Nehru
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However
difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of
world government, with agreed international law and
means of enforcing the law, is inevitable.
-- John B. Orr
We
are privileged to have the opportunity of contributing
to the achievement of the goal of the abolition
of war and its replacement by world law. I am
confident that we shall succeed in this great
task; that the world community will thereby be
freed not only from the suffering caused by war
but also through the better use of the earth's
resources, of the discoveries of scientists, and
of the efforts of mankind, from hunger, disease,
illiteracy, and fear; and that we shall in the
course of time be enabled to build a world characterized
by economic, political, and social justice for
all human beings and a culture worthy of man's
intelligence.
-- Linus Pauling
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"Justice
is the insurance which we have on our lives and
property. Obedience is the premium which we pay
for it."
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“Kids
don’t have a little brother working in the coal
mine, they don’t have a little sister coughing
her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns
of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized;
we broke the back of the sweatshops in this
country; we have child labor laws. Those were
not benevolent gifts from enlightened management.
They were fought for, they were bled for, they
were died for by working people, by people like
us. Kids ought to know that. That’s why I sing
these songs. That’s why I tell these stories,
dammit. No root, no fruit!”
-- Utah
Phillips
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When
freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not
wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved
in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen
to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity
and society.
-- Pope John Paul II
The
international community should support a system of
laws to regularize international relations and maintain
the peace in the same manner that law governs national
order."
-- Pope John Paul II
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