"Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine thought that is behind it."

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The very idea of law originates in men's natural rights. There is no other standard, than natural rights, by which civil law can be measured. Law has always been the name of that rule or principle of justice, which protects those rights. Thus we speak of natural law.

— Lysander Spooner