Examples of famous quotes about the rule of law are as follows:
1. Laws and systems must keep up with the progress of human thought. - Jefferson
2. The real poor are those who do not know that they lack free will. -Nietzsche
3. If the law is established at the top, the customs will become at the bottom. - Su Che
4. Law is order, and only with good laws can there be good order. -Aristotle
5. Human beings are subject to law, and law is subject to reason. - Thomas Fuller
6. The creators of the Constitution gave us a compass, not a blueprint. —Posner
7. Where the burden of proof lies, that is where the lawsuit will be lost. - Dharma Proverb
8. Those who enforce laws suppress violence and support the weak, hoping that they will be difficult to violate and easy to avoid. -Ban Gu
9. Punishment is justice. - Augustine
10. Establishing good and preventing evil is called etiquette, and prohibiting non-establishment is called law. -Fu Xuan's "Fu Zi·Legal Punishment"
11. Law is a free and solemn expression of the people's will. - Robespierre's "Revolutionary Legal System and Trial"
12. Rather than scolding evil, it is better to uphold justice. ——Tennyson
13. Relief comes before rights. Without relief, there is no right. —British and American French Proverbs
14. If the law is unreasonable, no matter how long it lasts, it will still have no restrictive power. - Love Kirk
15. The true meaning of law is that there is no absolute freedom, let alone absolute equality. -Guo Dao, a famous Chinese jurist
16. In all human states that can accept the control of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom. ——Locke's "Treatise of Government"
17. Law without faith will degenerate into rigid dogma, and faith without law will degenerate into fanaticism. - Berman
18. The law is nothing but a record of our will. -Rousseau
19. Freedom is not unlimited freedom. Freedom is the power to do anything permitted by law. - Montesquieu
20. The law prohibits people from doing wrong and makes them do good and avoid crime.
—Ouyang Xiu