p. 27-28 Self Defense
“There is a celebrated passage by Cicero, in which, speaking of force when used in defense of one’s life, he bears testimony to nature. ‘This law is not written but born in us; we have not learned it from any teaching, from hearing or reading, but have got it from nature herself, imbibed it, put it in words . . . ; a law to effect that if our lives are threatened by plots, violence, or weapons in the hands of robbers or enemies, any means of ensuring our safety is a right.” He proceeds: ‘Reason taught this law to the educated, necessity to the barbarians, habit to the nations, and nature herself to the wild beasts – always to use every possible means of repelling any violence offered to their bodies, their heads or their lives.’”
True, but it is inherently a right everywhere, because self-defense is an innate HUMAN RIGHT!
Which the second amendment protects.
Hugo Grotius The Law of War and Peace Published for the Classics Club by Walter J. Black, New York © 1949
Notes: Well worth reading.
p. 27-28 Self Defense “There is a celebrated passage by Cicero, in which, speaking of force when used in defense of one’s life, he bears testimony to nature. ‘This law is not written but born in us; we have not learned it from any teaching, from hearing or reading, but have got it from nature herself, imbibed it, put it in words . . . ; a law to effect that if our lives are threatened by plots, violence, or weapons in the hands of robbers or enemies, any means of ensuring our safety is a right.” He proceeds: ‘Reason taught this law to the educated, necessity to the barbarians, habit to the nations, and nature herself to the wild beasts – always to use every possible means of repelling any violence offered to their bodies, their heads or their lives.’”
Thank you. It is a good quote. I will go look.
Do you see why they take the classics out of the schools? Cicero knew this back before Christ.
Marcus Tullius Cicero January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, writer.
They are all just "dead white men" and have been purged from the schools.
I see why now.