Nature Quote by Mark R. Levin

“Locke said, as have others, that natural law is forever and enduring, and man-made law, which may vary from place to place and time…

— Mark R. Levin

“Locke said that there is a circle of freedom surrounding each person and all people at birth. And within that circle is the absolute…

— Mark R. Levin

“In other words, the fact that every person has the ability to reason and discover natural law, and the divine rights that flow from…

— Mark R. Levin

“Whenever the legislators endeavour to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“Classical theorists (foremost John Locke, a British philosopher greatly admired by the founders) captured the predicament in the idea of a preconstitutional “state of…

— Michael S. Greve

“above all, Locke’s transforming idea that government was established and maintained by the consent of the governed, in which all men had an equal…

— James MacGregor Burns

“above all, Locke’s transforming idea that government was established and maintained by the consent of the governed, in which all men had an equal…

— James MacGregor Burns

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but…

— Edgar Quinet

“The Enlightenment may have made its most lasting impact in the way we live and think today through its social history. Our institutions and…

— Louis Dupré

“the fundamental fact that law directs the ongoing of society. It is rooted in the past, determines the present, and protects the future.”

— James A. Michener

“Second Treatise of Government by John Locke.”

— Charles River Editors

Ordinary human laws are the means - however imperfect - by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.

— Russell Kirk