A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen : but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country... Putnam's Monthly - Página 104Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Thomas Jefferson - 1898 - 580 páginas
...transaction of their business, it will soften the pillow of my repose through the residue of life. The question you propose, whether circumstances do...country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with... | |
| James Penny Boyd - 1893 - 728 páginas
...law, is easy of solution in principle but sometimes embarrassing in practice. A strict observance <K the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties...country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with... | |
| 1894 - 166 páginas
...Colvin, December, 1810, that — "A strict observance of the written law is doubtless one of the highest duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest....country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1903 - 505 páginas
...transaction of their business, it will soften the pillow of my repose through the residue of life. 'The question you propose, whether circumstances do...country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1907 - 246 páginas
...propose, whether circumstances do not occur sometimes, which make it a duty in officers of high 12. 418. trust, to assume authorities beyond the law, is easy...country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with... | |
| Rene Albert Wormser, Rene Wormser - 1972 - 628 páginas
...Justices. Thomas Jefferson "A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The...country when in danger, are of higher obligation." JEFFERSON: WRITINGS I: The Effect of the French Revolution FEW HISTORICAL CHARACTERS can be put into... | |
| Garry Davis - 1984 - 416 páginas
...written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The law of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation." This government, we claim, is the new requirement for self-preservation, both individually and globally.... | |
| David Dary - 1987 - 296 páginas
...and am no doubt the only living person who ever heard the story." Part III THE LAWLESS AND THE LAWMEN A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless...country when in danger, are of higher obligation. —Thomas Jefferson Bloody Bill Anderson His real name was William T. Anderson, and through the years,... | |
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