by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, Natural Law, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“Man has been subjected by his Creator to the moral law, of which his feelings, or conscience as it is sometimes called, are the evidence with which his Creator has furnished him …. The moral duties which exist between individual and individual in a state...
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 | Constitution, Founders, Government, Natural Law, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“We hold these truths to be self-evident…all men are… endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men.” Thomas Jefferson – Declaration of...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 16, 2013 | Blackstone, Government, Natural Law, Philosophers, Quotes
“The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.” William Blackstone Courtesy of Brainy Quote (BrainyQuote.com)
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 16, 2013 | Blackstone, Government, Natural Law, Quotes
“The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual’s private rights.” William Blackstone, Commentaries 1:120–41
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 16, 2013 | Blackstone, Government, Natural Law, Philosophers, Quotes, Religion
“No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God.” Courtesy of Brainy Quote (brainyquote.com)