"Abnegate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... between conservatism and progress; between truth and error; between right and wrong. You may sooner, by act of Congress, compel the sea to suppress its upheavings, and the round earth to extinguish its internal fires. You may legislate, and abrogate, and abnegate, as you will, but there is a Superior Power that overrules all; that overrules not only all your actions and all your refusals to act, but all human events, to the distant but inevitable result of the equal and ...
— A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 • DeAlva Stanwood Alexander |
