Ideas Quote by Lysander Spooner

The natural law is the origin and principle of all virtues and their acts, therefore we must first speak about natural law.

— William of Auxerre

Law is twofold -- natural and written. The natural law is in the heart, the written law on tables. All men are under the…

— Ambrose

“1951. Law is a rule of conduct enacted by competent authority for the sake of the common good. The moral law presupposes the rational…

— The Catholic Church

The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and analysis. But it may be said that in a…

— Robert Kennedy

Theories of "natural law" and the "law of nations" are another excellent example of discussions destitute of all exactness. [...] "Natural law" is simply…

— Vilfredo Pareto

“It is not because men have made laws, that personality, liberty, and property exist. On the contrary, it is because personality, liberty, and property…

— Frédéric Bastiat

Whether arrived at through reason or revelation, natural law is the highest law known to man. It is anchored in the very existential nature…

— Ilana Mercer

“Aren’t all laws simply man’s attempt to codify moral concepts? Is not “legislation” simply our combined agreement as to what is “right” and “wrong”?…

— Neale Donald Walsch

A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.

— Chaim Weizmann

Virtually all of the civil laws in all of the world's societies are based on what humanity, in the earliest days, believed to be…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation…

— Anonymous

The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!

— John Quincy Adams