#obey

I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

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With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them. ↗

— John McGraw

#am #czar #fine #i #i am

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#cannot #conform #even #fancies #i

I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them. ↗

— Maria Monk

#astonishment #criminal #duties #great #horror

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. ↗

— Alfred A. Montapert

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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command? ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#command #individual #obey #obligation #right

The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war. ↗