by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 31, 2013 | Blackstone, education, Education, Philosophers, Quotes
“I think it an undeniable position, that a competent knowledge of the laws of that society in which we live, is the proper accomplishment of every gentleman and scholar; an highly useful, I had almost said essential, part of liberal and polite education. And in...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 22, 2013 | Blackstone, Freedom, Government, Natural Law, Philosophers, Quotes
“Good and wise men, in all ages…have supposed, that the deity, from the relations, we stand in, to himself and to each other, has constituted an eternal and immutable law, which is, indispensably, obligatory upon all mankind, prior to any human institution...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Blackstone, Constitution, Government, Natural Law, Philosophers, Quotes
“And these[great Natural Rights] may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty; and the right of private property; because as there is no other known method of compulsion, or of abridging...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Blackstone, Government, Natural Law, Philosophers, Quotes
“For as God, when he created matter, and endued it with a principle of mobility, established certain rules for the…direction of that motion; so, when he created man, and endued him with freewill to conduct himself in all parts of life, he laid down certain...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Blackstone, government, natural law, Philosophers, Quotes, religion
“Man … must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator.. This will of his Maker is called the law of nature…. This law of nature…is of course superior to any other…. No human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this: and such...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Blackstone, government, natural law, Philosophers, Quotes
“Free men have arms; slaves do not.” William Blackstone Courtesy of BrainyQuote (BrainyQuote.com)
