“Of crimes injurious to the persons of private subjects, the most principal and important is the offense of taking away that life, which is the immediate gift of the great creator; and which therefore no man can be entitled to deprive himself or another of, but in some manner either expressly commanded in, or evidently deducible from, those laws which the creator has given us; the divine laws, I mean, of either nature or revelation.” MenMeanPersonsImportantLawGivenSubjectsCrimeDivineCreatorRevelationsPrincipalEntitledOffenseDivine Law Book:Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books, with an analysis of the work Source: Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books, with an analysis of the work
“Whether arrived at through reason or revelation, natural law is the highest law known to man. It is anchored in the very existential nature of man and is therefore a priori just.” MenReasonLawNaturalKnownHighestRevelationsExistentialNatural LawNature Of Man Author:Ilana Mercer
“The soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God, gaveus relgions which coule not possible maintained without belief and obedience: ... we find them most permanent and changeless among people who make the least effort to swquare their beliefs with the laws of life.” PeopleMenMindLawBeliefEffortAtheismPositive AtheismObediencePermanentAbstractRevelationsSoarImaginativeLoftyLaws Of Life Author:Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“The severest prosecutions have never been followed by revelations changing a divine law, obedience to which brought imprisonment or martyrdom. Though I go to prison, God will not change his law of celestial marriage.” LawDivinePrisonGods WillObedienceRevelationsCelestialMartyrdomImprisonmentPolygamyProsecutionDivine Law Author:Lorenzo Snow