This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Nobody ought to be compelled in matters of religion either by law or force.
It is as much the duty of government to render prompt justice against itself, in favor of citizens, as it is to administer the same between private individuals.
Duty | Government | Justice | Government |
Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Duty | Faith | Right | Understand |
[McClaughry’s Law of Public Policy] Politicians who vote huge expenditures to alleviate problems get reelected; those who propose structural changes to prevent problems get early retirement.
Law | Policy | Problems | Public | Retirement |
Lord Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and these interests it is our duty to follow.
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Charles De Montesquieu, formally Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
Duty to Man has replaced Duty to God. It is the central point of Humanism.
Toleration… is not true liberty when it is only a gracious concession by the state to the individual. Gracious concessions are incompatible with liberty of religion which is not something that a state, or an absolutist church offers, but that which the citizen claims and the law protects.
Church | Individual | Law | Liberty | Religion | Toleration |
The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.
Law | Life | Life | Nature | Need | Reflection | Thinking | Thought | World | Thought |
Oscar Romero, formally Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez
No soldier is obliged to obey an order counter to the law of God. No one has to comply with an immoral law. It is time now that you recover your conscience and obey its dictates rather than the command of sin.