Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them the privilege of exemption from plain provisions of the law and the constitution. The test of democracy is not obedience to a law we all favor, it is our attitude to a law we may not like. Even if we don't like the 18th amendment, let's obey it. We asked the railroad shopmen, a year ago, to obey an act of Congress which placed the adjustment of their wages in the bands of the Railroad Wage Board and our attorney general declared them rebels against the government if they refused. They undoubtedly thought they were...
...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, but it is as much a law of the land as the most fundamental provision in our Constitution...
...Government to the purpose of its origin. They are doing nothing to keep alive the ideals and institutions of free constitutional government. They are trying to debauch and debase every Senator and every public man who refuses to turn his back upon his country to surrender his convictions and obey the behests of selfish, morbid, contemptible and corrupt dollar aristocracy...
...every man, whether a pacifist or an opportunist," continued the speaker, "by the League of Nations or by the World Court,--let him strive to abolish war and to substitute trial by jury for trial by battle. Let every man obey his own individual conscience, even to the point of refusing to obey his country's orders--let him refuse to fight, if he thinks it evil. The abolitionists won their fight for slavery against the efforts of a united nation; why cannot we win with such a message to the world?", he concluded...
...group having the natural breadth and average intelligence of a CroMagnon man and again to the hysteria of some other group with somewhat the same qualifications, a maze of laws has been constructed which is impossible to respect if it is understood and still more impossible to obey if it is not understood. To make the situation a little worse, those laws which are commonly admitted to be irrational, trivial and ridiculous cease to be enforced: they remain law, enforceable at any time, while common sense prevents their invocation until they are forgotten, only to be hauled...