 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 - 第 104 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 頁
...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 - 1829 - 552 頁
...transaction of their business, it will soften the pillow of my repose through the residue of life. 149 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 - 1829 - 550 頁
...officers of high trust, to assume authorities beyond the law, is easy of solution in principle, bnt sometimes embarrassing in practice. A strict observance...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 - 1853 - 636 頁
...transaction of their business, it will soften the pillow of rny 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... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - 1865 - 468 頁
...sometimes embarrassing in practice. A strict observance of the written laws 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... | |
 | 1868 - 450 頁
...observance of the written laws is, doubtless, one of the high duties of a good citizen ; but it ia not tho highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation,...considered by him of no avail. If the interpretation wo put on it be true, the Supreme Court has merely uttered a speculative opinion, no more binding in... | |
 | Russell H. Conwell - 1884 - 526 頁
...following sentiments in a letter to JR Calvin, from his retirement at Monticello, September 22, 1810 : "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... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1887 - 560 頁
...right and reduced to beggary. A strict observance of the written laws 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. Something pursued with ardor is necessary to guard us from the tedium vitce, and the active pursuits... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - 1887 - 554 頁
...following sentiments, in a letter to JB Colvin, from his retirement at Mouticello, Sept. 22, 1810: " 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 Gillespie Blaine - 1887 - 554 頁
...following sentiments, in a letter to JB Colviu, from his retirement at Monticello, Sept. 22, 1810: " 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... | |
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