Sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature.
The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, th….
I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that pu….
One of the most solemn responsibilities of the president and it's set out expressly in the Constitution is that the president is to take care that th….
A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law..
Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable..
Man has discovered in nature the wonderful notion of that all-mighty being whose law he worships. Fundamentally in everyone there is the feeling for ….
Newton's great generalization, which he called the "third law of motion," was that "Action and reaction are always equal to each other;" and that law….
So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or h….
It is our duty to endeavor always to promote the general good; to do to all as we would be willing to be done by were we in their circumstances; to d….
[P]erfect freedom consists in obeying the dictates of right reason, and submitting to natural law. When a man goes beyond or contrary to the law of n….
That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,- That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course..
One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian a….
If I hadn't spent a big chunk of time in academia I might not have the depth of consciousness I do about ideas like that. I might think, for instance….
Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have….
The law hath so many contradictions and varyings from itself, that the law may not improperly be called a law-breaker. It is become too changeable a ….
You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or lamenting vindic….
HIV criminalization is a global trend, but surprisingly Canada has some of the worst HIV laws in the world - they have incarcerated 200 people to dat….
Theories of "natural law" and the "law of nations" are another excellent example of discussions destitute of all exactness. [...] "Natural law" is si….
Why must I cling to the customs and practices of a particular country forever, just because I happened to be born there? What does it matter if its d….
I proposed a law that every country where the U.S. has a military base - those people should be allowed to vote in the American election..