Quote: if doubt that war is natural, consider that you lock your door or chest despite officers and laws

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It may seem strange to some man ...; that Nature should thus dissociate, and render men apt to invade, and destroy one another ... Let him therefore consider with himselfe, when taking a journey, he armes himselfe, and seeks to go well accompanied; when going to sleep, he locks his dores; when even in his house he locks his chests; and this when he knowes there bee Lawes, and publike Officers, armed, to revenge all injuries shall bee done him ... Does he not there as much accuse mankind by his actions, as I do by my words? But neither of us accuse mans nature in it. The Desires, and other Passions of man, are in themselves no Sin. No more are the Actions, that proceed from those Passions, till they know a Law that forbids them: which till Lawes be made they cannot know: nor can any Law be made, till they have agreed upon the Person that shall make it.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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Quote: law requires an agreement regarding who makes the law

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