No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a degree of tyranny.

The most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it; or the cause which moved the legislator to enact it. for when this reason ceased, the law itself ought likewise to cease with it.

[Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the laws of society.