Obedience to the Law: An Address at the Opening of Petigru College in Columbia, South CarolinaPress of Geo. H. Ellis Company, 1919 - 21 páginas |
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Página 12 - I am proposing, as it were, that the nations should with one accord adopt the doctrine of President Monroe as the doctrine of the world; that no nation should seek to extend its...
Página 21 - Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap; let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the Nation...
Página 12 - He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
Página 5 - We must choose between having prescribed rules of right conduct, binding in every case so long as they exist, even though there may be occasional inconvenience through their restraint upon our freedom of action, and having no rules at all to prevent us from doing in every case whatever we wish to do at the time. We cannot maintain one system in part and the other system in part. The gulf between the two systems is not narrowed, but greatly widened...
Página 17 - There have been many lynchings, and every one of them has been a blow at the heart of ordered law and humane justice. No man who loves America, no man who really cares for her fame and honor and character, or who is truly loyal to her institutions, can justify mob action while the courts of justice are open and the governments of the States and the nation are ready and able to do their duty.
Página 21 - Where we permit the law to be defied or evaded, whether by rich man or poor man, by black man or white, we are by just so much weakening the bonds of our civilization and increasing the chances of its overthrow, and of the substitution therefor of a system in which there shall be violent alternations of anarchy and tyranny.
Página 10 - Our murder death rate (for, of course, the statistics used refer only to the recorded deaths from homicide and not to judicial convictions) for the registration area for the period 1909-1913 was 6.4 per 100,000 of population. The rate for England and Wales (1904-1913) was 0.8; for Prussia (1904-1913), 2.0; for Australia (1910-1913), 1.9; and finally, for Italy (1908-1912), 3.6. In other words, the number of murders in the United States at the present time, proportionate to population, is about 100...
Página 5 - All that makes existence valuable to any one, depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people. Some rules of conduct, therefore, must be imposed, by law in the first place, and by opinion on many things which are not fit subjects for the operation of law.
Página 18 - Reflect seriously on the possible consequences of keeping in the hearts of your community a bank of discontent, every hour accumulating, upon which every company of seditious men may draw at pleasure.
Página 10 - ... recorded deaths from homicide and not to judicial convictions) for the registration area for the period 1909-1913 was 6.4 per 100,000 of population. The rate for England and Wales (1904-1913) was 0.8; for Prussia (1904-1913), 2.0; for Australia (19101913), 1.9; and finally, for Italy (19081912), 3.6. In other words, the number of murders in the United States at the present time, proportionate to population, is about 100 homicides for every thirteen committed in England and Wales, thirty in Australia,...