“We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” HumansTodayNationsUnitedRightsMankindEventsUniversalHuman RightsApprovalDeclarationUnited NationsAssemblyThresholdGreat EventsGeneral AssemblyDeclaration Of Human Rights Book:The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Source: The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers
“Thus the law of nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as well as others. The rules that they make for other mens actions, must, as well as their own and other mens actions, be conformable to the law of nature, i.e. to the will of God, of which that is a declaration, and the fundamental law of nature being the preservation of mankind, no human sanction can be good, or valid against it.” MenHumansWellsActionLawMankindEternalFundamentalsBe GoodGods WillDeclarationPreservationLaws Of NatureSanctionsLegislators Book:Two treatises of government Source: Two treatises of government
“Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.” FormSufferingEvilPoliticsEconomyMankindLiberalismDeclarationAccustomedResignationForms Of GovernmentAbolishDeclaration Of IndependenceUnalienable RightsResigning Author:Thomas Jefferson