 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 - Page 1041857Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...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 - Presidents - 1829 - 552 pages
...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 - United States - 1829 - 550 pages
...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 - United States - 1853 - 636 pages
...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 - African-American soldiers - 1865 - 468 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Booksellers and bookselling - 1884 - 526 pages
...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 - Presidents - 1887 - 560 pages
...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 - United States - 1887 - 554 pages
...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... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - United States - 1887 - 554 pages
...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... | |
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