This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
English Historian
"Power is regarded by all men as the greatest of temporal advantages. The support given to Power, therefore, is an obligation; and, consequently, the protection given by governors to subjects, a positive duty."
"The virtue of benevolence... is of so comprehensive a nature, that it contains the principle of every moral duty."