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Christian Worldview of History and Culture Found in Quotes From Scottish Reformer, George Buchanan ...it would be better to have no laws at all, than, under the cloak of law, to tolerate unrestrained and even honourable robbery. George Buchanan, Scottish reformer We shall then establish it as an axiom that a king and a tyrant are contraries. George Buchanan, Scottish reformer At the present I certainly wish nothing else to be understood by it (the term nature) but the light infused into our minds by the divinity; George Buchanan, Scottish reformer ...but also presented to his mind a kind of light, by which he might distinguish vice from virtue and honour. This power some call nature, some the law of nature: I certainly hold it to be divine, and am thoroughly persuaded that...of this law, too, we have from God a kind of abridgement, comprehending the whole in a few words, when he commands us to love him with all our hearts, and our nieghbours as ourselves. George Buchanan, Scottish reformer And the same cause, which rendered kings necessary, occasioned the institution of laws. For the constant object of pursuit was uniform justice since otherwise it would not be justice. When this advantage could be derived from one just and good man, they were satisfied; but, when that was not the case, they enacted laws that should at all times, and to all persons, speak the same language. George Buchanan, Scottish reformer Of Plato, however, and Aristotle...I say nothing at the present; because I choose rather to have men illustrious for real action, than for their name in the shades of academies, for my auxiliaries. George Buchanan, Scottish reformer It was never my idea that this business should be left to the sole decision of all the people; but that, nearly in conformity to our practice, representatives selected from all orders should assemble as council to the king, and that, when they had passed a conditional act, it should be ultimately referred to the people for their sanction. George Buchanan, Scottish reformer First of all. it was our opinion that a king is created for the benefit of the people, and that nothing derived from heaven can be a greater blessing than a good, or a greater curse than a bad king. George Buchanan, Scottish reformer Therefore, if the people can ordain a law, and create a magistrate, what hinders it to pass sentence upon him, and to appoint judges for his trial? George Buchanan, Scottish reformer ...why should any man think it iniquitous, in a free peopple, to adopt in a similar, or even a different manner, prospective remedies for checking the enormities of tyranny? George Buchanan, Scottish reformer You are, then of opinion, that tyrants ought to be ranked among the most ferocious beasts, and that tyrannie violence is more against nature than poverty, than disease, than death, and every other evil that the decrees of nature have entailed upon mankind? George Buchanan, Scottish reformer
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