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To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant,…
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People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found…
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I now add, farther, that the apostles argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey,…
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Extremes are dangerous.
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Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their…
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But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.
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They are more properly ‘The Messengers of Satan to buffet us.’ No rulers are properly God’s ministers, but such as are ‘just,…
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The king is as much bound by his oath not to infringe the legal rights of the people, as the people are…
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Turn in upon yourselves, get into your closets, and now resolve to dwell there. You have been strangers to this work too…
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But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.
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Miss Grantham gave a shriek. 'You have trifled with me!' she said, into the folds of her handkerchief. 'You promised me marriage,…
— Georgette Heyer
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The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.
— Mary Astell
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Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If our highly pointed triangles of the soldier class are formidable, it may be readily inferred that far more formidable are our…
— Edwin A. Abbott
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Oh, how precious is time! And how guilty it makes me feel when I think I have trifled away and misimproved it,…
— David Brainerd
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It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be…
— James Anthony Froude
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