It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.
It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish.
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.
Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
Judicious absence is a weapon.
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.