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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.

— Rufus King

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Edmund Burke

This is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control.

— Rufus King

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.

— Edgar Quinet

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

— Edmund Burke

We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.

— Max Planck

Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselves must still be accepted as brute facts. So maybe the ultimate laws of nature will always be off-limits to science.

— Paul Davies

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.

— Lysander Spooner

Either the law exists, or it does not.

— Andre Norton

✗Opposing Perspectives

No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.

— Dmitri Mendeleev

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

— Emma Goldman