There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole globe, is everywhere and at all times binding upon mankind.
There is only one rule of law in our country, which provides rights and security for every citizen.
Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to any correct definition of the term law.
We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.
The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
The very idea of law originates in men's natural rights. There is no other standard, than natural rights, by which civil law can be measured. Law has always been the name of that rule or principle of justice, which protects those rights. Thus we speak of natural law.
Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.
The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
A law is a law, and it has to be respected.
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
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