by Mike Van Schoiack | May 12, 2018 | Government, Natural Law, Uncategorized
In 1861, on reading the Origin of Species, Marx exulted: “Darwin’s book is very important and serves me as a natural scientific basis for the class struggle in history. One has to put up with the crude English method of development, of course.” Source: Discovery...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 2, 2016 | Founders, Government, James Wilson, Natural Law, New, Quotes
“Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of the legitimate kind.” James...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Feb 23, 2016 | Natural Law, Quotes, Religion, Subject
Natural law is “written on our hearts” according to the Bible: “They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them.” Romans 2:15,...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 24, 2015 | Economics, Equality, Founders, Freedom, Natural Law, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Feb 25, 2015 | Alexander Hamilton, Founders, Natural Law, Quotes
“It is the lot of all human institutions, even those of the most perfect kind, to have defects as well as excellencies – ill as well as good propensities. This results from the imperfection of the Institutor, Man.” Alexander Hamilton, Selected...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Feb 9, 2015 | Constitution, Freedom, Government, Natural Law, President, Quotes, Subject, Uncategorized
“For it is very clear that, in fundamental theory, socialism and democracy are almost, if not quite, one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members.” Woodrow Wilson,...