Quote: in war, every man is bound by nature to protect the authority by which he is protected in peace

Quotation

To the Laws of Nature, declared in the 15. Chapter, I would have this added, That every man is bound by Nature, as much as in him lieth, to protect in Warre, the Authority, by which he is himself protected in time of Peace. For he that pretendeth a Right of Nature to preserve his owne body, cannot pretend a Right of Nature to destroy him [the Authority], by whose strength he is preserved: It is a manifest contradiction of himselfe, And though this Law may bee drawn by consequence, from some of those that are there already mentioned; yet the Times require to have it inculcated, and remembered.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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