by Matthew Bransgrove | Jun 19, 2015 | Natural Law
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. If virtuous, it need not fear the fair operation of attack and defence: nature has given to man no other means of sifting out the truth either in religion, law, or politics....
by Matthew Bransgrove | Jun 19, 2015 | Natural Law
Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together. And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers and encourages men of fine genius. Tacitus tells us, that the Roman Republic...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Jun 19, 2015 | Natural Law
Government being intended to protect men from the injuries of one another, and not to direct them in their own affairs, in which no one is interested but themselves; it is plain, that their thoughts and domestic concerns are exempted entirely from its jurisdiction....
by Matthew Bransgrove | Jun 19, 2015 | Natural Law
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. —The Declaration of Independence These rights, which...
