Firsts Quote by Malcolm X

The law of nature gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked. And God's law itself gives a man the right…

— Malcolm X

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

— John Dryden

“The right of self defense is the first law of nature; in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this…

— Anonymous

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

— John Dryden

A half century ago Herbert Wechsler could justify the legal right of deadly force self-defense in terms of the "universal judgment that there is…

— Don Kates

Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself.

— William Barclay

“the laws that ran through nature were uniform and pervasive.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator, obliges everyone…

— Elbridge Gerry

“One of the first motives to civil society, and which becomes one of its fundamental rules, is that no man should be judge in…

— Edmund Burke

“Man cannot change a single law of nature, but can put himself into such relations to natural laws that he can profit by them"...”

— Anonymous

A Law of Nature, (Lex Naturalis) is a Precept, or general Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden to do,…

— Thomas Hobbes

“John Stuart Mill,   The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any…

— Milton Friedman