“There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.” IfsHeartLawReadingIndividualNaturalEnemyPracticeOur LivesViolenceWrittenSecurityTheoryTrainingMethodLaysIntuitionPlotCustomsInstructionAdoptionRobbersIndividual RightsAbsorptionProtecting Ourselves Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The worship of the nation has been able to make men tolerate under its authority what they could never have tolerated from princes: a submission to rule, which, through sumptuary laws on food and drink, through conscription, through a cast-iron system of compulsory instruction for all on State ordered lines, and through a State examination at the gate of every profession, has almost killed the citizen's power to react upon that which controls him, and has almost destroyed that variety which is the mark of life.” MenHas BeensStatesWisdomAbleLawPoliticsNationsLinesEconomyCitizensDrinkAuthorityWorshipMarkCastsProfessionDestroyedVarietyLiberalismIronGatesInstructionTolerateSubmissionExaminationCompulsoryFood And DrinkConscription Author:Hilaire Belloc
“We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.” NeedsMindHumansWellsBookLawHonorRoseUniversityEntertainmentDuesFormerCodeLatterHuman MindInstructionReignRecreationVinesOlivesCannonsMyrtleJustinian Author:Honore de Balzac
“Politics is the only serious. subject that men think themselves qualified to act upon without any previous education or instruction whatever. If it happened to be astronomy, or botany, or medicine, or law, he would never be allowed to work in any of these arts, or to take a decisive part in the history of any one of these sciences without having, at least, acquired: the A B C of it; but the awful fact of politics is that we do not take the trouble seriously to understand the political situation.” IfsThinkingMenArtFactsLawPoliticalSituationHappenedTroubleSubjectsSeriousElectionMedicineAstronomyAwfulInstructionQualifiedElection DayBotanySerious Subjects Author:Hugh Price Hughes