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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.
If men would as fervently seek after love and righteousness as they do after opinions, there would be no strife on earth, and we should be as children of one father, and should need no law or ordinance. For God is not served by any law, but only by obedience.
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God.
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
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.