All things Quote by Martin Farquhar Tupper

Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of…

— Thomas Jefferson

We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere…

— Thomas Jefferson

[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the Great Legislator…

— John Adams

Law is but a heathen word for power.

— Daniel Defoe

The Interpretation of the Laws of Nature in a Common-wealth, dependeth not on the books of Moral Philosophy. The Authority of writers, without the…

— Thomas Hobbes

“These rights stand above the law of the land and, being universal in nature, are common to civilized society everywhere in the world. Thus,…

— Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly

I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of right and…

— Aristotle

“True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands,…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

— Edmund Burke

All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.

— John Stuart Blackie

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity

— Edmund Burke

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice,…

— Edmund Burke