According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free

The law is silent during war

Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]

Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art. [Lat., Meliora sunt ea quae natura quam illa quae arte perfecta sunt.]

There exists a law, not written down anywhere, but inborn in our hearts, a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading, a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.”