Positive Law Quotes
- The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate… — Edward Gibbon
- Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that, being a natural and unalienable… — James Madison
- The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated, and continual revision… — Russell Kirk