If civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.

The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

Well, then, had I been at Martinique, I should also have been on the side of the English, because above all things it is necessary to save one's life. I am for the whites, because I am white; I have no other reason, yet that is reason good enough. How was it possible to grant liberty to the Africans, to men without any kind of civilization, who did not even know what a colony meant, or that there was such a place as France?