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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval with reason, of which the first rise cannot be discovered.
Accept and express your underlying certitude, and it shall be worldwide sagacity.
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!
If it shall be necessary, through sentences of excommunication against their persons and of interdict against their lands, all backsliding being put an end to, they compel them to fulfil their vows.
Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.
It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.
Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.
Who rules our symbols, rules us.
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.
I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy. You can only punish. I warn you that a wicked law, like cholera, destroys everyone it touches - its upholders as well as its defiers.
Declare the sacred utterances.
This magistrate is not the king. The people are the king.
The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and committed to them in trust from the People, to the Common good of them all, in whom the power yet remaines fundamentally, and cannot be takn from them, without a violation of thir natural birthright.
Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings.
And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Resolved, That all laws which prevent women from occupying such a station in society as her conscience shall dictate, or which place her in a position inferior to that of man, are contrary to the great precept of nature, and therefore of no force or authority.
No sanction can stand against ignited minds.
An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the course of events as any other bodily act ... You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.
We declare, say , define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.
Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.
Pardon is granted to necessity.
God is thy law, thou mine.
Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
Kingdom laws cannot be broken
As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'
A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.
Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire.
A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order.
But a law, however venerable be the sanction, cannot suddenly transform the temper of the times ...
O God and Lord, now the council condemns even Your own act and Your own law as heresy, since You Yourself did lay Your cause before Your Father as the just judge, as an example for us, whenever we are sorely oppressed.
How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who submits almost without resistance to the domineering power.
Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.
Obedient to constraint, I was compelled to submit
I do not wish to give the order full force without giving timely warning but I am a widow's son outlawed and must be obeyed.
The laws receive their force and authority from an oath of fidelity, either tacit or expressed, which living subjects have sworn to their sovereign, in order to restrain the intestine fermentation of the private interest of individuals.
The Courts must declare the sense of the law; and if they should be disposed to exercise will instead of judgement; the consequences would be the substitution of their pleasure for that of the legislative body.
A ruler who discerning justice refuseth to it the sanction of law, demanding abnegation of rights and self-sacrifice, will not drive his subjects to these virtues, virtuous only if free, but by unnaturally making justice unlawful, will drive them rather to rebellion against all law.
I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
When you banish me, you who are maryadapurushottham will be writing a law which will render innocent women of coming generations homeless and destitute.
In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away.
The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.
It is hereby decreed that the wall separating the sacred and the profane be toen down. From now on everything is sacred.
The law of the realm cannot be changed but by Parliament.
The well heeded well heard.
The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.
Opinion crowns with an imperial voice.
I have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine or for rulers to desire beer. 5 Otherwise, they will drink, forget what is decreed, and pervert justice for all the oppressed.
Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.
And now the matchless deed's achieved, Determined, Dared, and Done.
The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.
The command of the old despotisms was "Thou shalt not". The command of the totalitarians was "Thou shalt". Our command is "Thou art".
Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.
Truth is the edict of God.
Reason and reality are the only means to just laws; mindless wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters.
Let us reject this decree. In matters of conscience the majority has no power.
Merle d'Aubigne, History of the Reformation, b. 13, ch. 5.
Tell me." It was an order. It was law.
Jurisdictie Prudentia :
Important : Legislation and Jurisdiction :
Justice conform : "Prudentia".
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Babaji
September 20, 2016
God neither wills nor decrees anything without having long before directed it to its proper end. People
To obey is the proper office of a rational soul.
Resolved to act right.
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Rulers are not anointed. They are created by the void of self-mastery.
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
One single object ... [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.
RULERS should be careful about what songs are allowed to be sung.
Rule by cats, that's what we really need. My first decree would be for more naps." "And
Rules must be established and enforced, and, as numbers are increased in prisons, the necessity for vigilance increases. These rules, let it be understood, may be kindly while firmly enforced. I would never suffer any exhibition of ill-temper or an arbitrary exercise of authority.
Laws are commanded to hold their tongues among arms; and tribunals fall to the ground with the peace they are no longer able to uphold.
Everything not forbidden is compulsory
There is nothing we can now call our own, for what we call so is the effect of art; crimes are made by decrees of the senate, or by the votes of the people; and as here-to-fore we are burdened by vices, so now we are oppressed by laws.
What you cannot enforce, do not command!
1Moses summoned all Israel and said: Hear, O Israel, the decrees and laws I declare in your hearing today. Learn them and be sure to follow them.
The King's grace is greater than you know, and the law is become less stern than aforetime; or else no choice would be given you but to abide here to your life's end.
Thou shalt not ration justice.
It's by the king's decree," the man said. "The strong have always taken from the weak,
Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.
Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.
Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.
The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.
What must be shall be.
Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
To rule your mind, mind your rules.
Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
Why then should words challenge Eternity, When greatest men, and greatest actions die? Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue; Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech.
He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done.
The Emperor Napoleon, ascending gradually from his post of national magistrate to seat himself upon a throne without limits, seems to have wished to punish, as for the abuse of republican reforms, by making us feel all the weight of absolute monarchy.
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command
It's time to give the gavel back to God, we were never meant to be judges.
Fulfil my wishes, Obey my commands.
Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.
The word of God surpasses earthly orders.
He who intended to introduce a new law, should do it with a rope about his neck, in order that he might be immediately strangled, unless he could change the ancient constitution of the polity, to the very great advantage of the community.