"Rightfulness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a state, the bare existence of a law imposes an obligation upon the individual citizen, whatever his personal conviction of its rightfulness or its wisdom. Yet is such obligation not absolute. The primary duty, attested alike by the law and the gospel, is submission. The presumption is in favor of the law; and if there lie against it just cause for accusation, on the score either of justice or ...
— Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles • Alfred T. Mahan |
