by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Education, Founders, John Jay, Quotes
“Let virtue, honor, the love of liberty…be the soul of this constitution, and it will become the source of great and extensive happiness to this and future generations. Vice, ignorance and want of vigilance, will be the only enemies able to destroy...
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)
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 16, 2013 | Natural Law, Philosophers, Quotes, Religion
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws – a thing which can never be demonstrated. Tryon Edwards, from A...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 16, 2013 | Natural Law, Philosophers, Quotes
Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. Alfred A. Montapert, assumed to come from his book Supreme Philosophy of Man...
