...of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highta. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of high obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law. would be to lose the...

...and we get 15 minutes. But let me give you a quotation that you might carry with you, and I quote: "A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless...our country when in danger are of higher obligation: And that same person said: "On great occasions every good officer must be ready to risk himself in...

...edition of a Polish king. That's 1787. In 1810, after 8 years in the Presidency, he wrote the following. A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless...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 life,...

...officers of high trust, to assume authorities beyond the law." Jefferson responded that the question "is easy of solution in principle, but sometimes embarrassing...country when in danger, are of higher obligation." It is not Jefferson's general response that occasions comment, but the examples he gives—that is,...

...with the flesh and skins of wild beasts." 74 Letter to John B. Colvin, 20 September 1810 (p. 1231): "A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless...saving our country, when in danger, are of higher observation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law...

...sense if it requires of us a type of national suicide, as Jefferson recognized when he argued that "the laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving...country when in danger, are of higher obligation" than all others.40 Jefferson's conclusion is a sensible answer to the wrong question. Whether we should...

...was used in the preservation or perpetuation of the principles of the revolution. As he suggested, "a strict observance of the written laws is doubtless...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...

...after he left the White House. "A strict observance of the written laws," he wrote carefully in 1810, "is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen,...self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of a higher obligation. . . . To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to...

...doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, or self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. — Thomas Jefferson Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger as for one of your own...

..."The laws of God, the laws of man," line 1-6, Last Poems, in The Collected Poems, p. 79 (1967). 1009 A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless...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...