 It is a contradiction in terms, it is blasphemy in religion, it is wickedness in politics, to say that any man can have arbitrary power. In every patent of office the duty is included. For what else does a magistrate exist ? To suppose for power is an...  Autobiography and Reminiscences - Page 319by David Patterson Dyer - 1922 - 357 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 718 pages
...duty is included. For what else does a magistrate exist? To suppose for power is an absurdity in idea. Judges are guided and governed by the eternal laws...justice, to which we are all subject. We may bite our chain?, if we will, but we shall be made to know ourselves, and be taught chat man is born to be governed... | |
 | Neal Dow - Prohibition - 1882 - 656 pages
...stern and warning, we take leave of the subject: "Law and arbitrary power are in eternal enmity. . . . We may bite our chains if we will; but we shall be made to know ourselves, and be taught that man is made to be governed by law, and he that will substitute will in the place of it is an enemy to God."... | |
 | 1911 - 958 pages
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 | Charities - 1911 - 962 pages
...all born in subjection," says Burke, "all born equally, high and low, governors and governed. . . . We may bite our chains if we will; but we shall be taught . . . that man is born to be governed by law ; and he that will substitute will in the place... | |
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