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Natural Quotes by Lysander Spooner
- No State shall pass any law impairing the [natural] obligation of contracts.
- All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other…
- For everybody has a natural right to defend his own person and property against aggressors, but also to go to the assistance and defence of…
- A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man,…
- To deprive mankind of their natural right and power of creating wealth for themselves, is as great a tyranny as it is to rob them…
- A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts that she is mentally competent to make…
- It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what…
- The very idea of law originates in men's natural rights. There is no other standard, than natural rights, by which civil law can be measured.…
- A man's 'original and natural right' to make all contracts that are 'intrinsically obligatory,' and to coerce the fulfillment of them, is one of the…
- If two individuals enter into a contract to commit trespass, theft, robbery or murder upon a third, the contract is unlawful and void, simply because…
- Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it…
- The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to…
- Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked up an apple…
- Slavery is a wrong to each individual enslaved; and not merely to the first of a series. Natural law, therefore, as much forbids the enslaving…
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- Being in touch with the natural world is crucial. — David Attenborough
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- Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
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