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...that they sometimes differed with me. They did then. Now, as all good citizens should, I claim to play the game. . . . The rules of the game of popular government are that all living under that government must obey. It is not patriotic, it is not sportsmanlike to evade or disobey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 10, 1928 | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...toothless, white-haired hag, was called the Queen of the Mafia gangs. Her word was law. Dressed in a man's clothes, she was wont to ride around the country marking out victims for the Mafia. She it was who ordered murders, robberies, extortions, ambushings, torture, kidnappings. None dared disobey her commands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mafia Trial | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

That strutting player whom many a Pole admires, Dictator-Marshal Josef Pilsudski, played again last week the now famous role which he enacts whenever the Sejm (Parliament) attempts to disobey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Possum-in-the-box | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

Mutiny in the U. S. Army is very rare. When Secretary of War Weeks goes out of town over the weekend, he is not worried that the Army will turn coat or disobey during his absence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Walkout and Lockout | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

There is an objection to limiting the term, Pacifist, to those who refuse to go to war and those who favor them. There are many who are just as extreme in their hostility to war, but whose conception of the State and her prerogatives forbids them to disobey her decrees. The very fact of his living in an organization such as the State makes, a man liable to her laws. Though these laws be against his conscience, he must obey them as he would his parents. The Draft Law was against the conscience of many people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Fallacies Of Preparedness | 4/5/1924 | See Source »

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