"Love to God and love to man is the substance of religion. When these prevail, civil laws will have little to do."

-- John Witherspoon, Signer of the Declaration of Independence

 
 
 
 
"There is no good government but what is republican...a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men'...a republic is the best of governments, so that particular arrangement of the powers of society, or in other words, that form of government which is best contrived to secure an impartial and exact execution of the law, is the best of republics."

-- John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776

 
 
America's Principles in Public Policy

“We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was ‘legal’ and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was ‘illegal.’”

— Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail