"Casus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... plain: a citizen of the United States had been lured across the border and done to death by Mexican soldiers—for it soon became evident that Ricardo was dead. The outrage was a casus belli such as no self-respecting people could ignore; so ran the popular verdict. Then when that ominous mailed serpent which lay coiled along the Rio Grande stirred itself, warlike Americans prepared themselves to ...
— Heart of the Sunset • Rex Beach
... the soviets and that it is not possible for the Allies with the world in its present temper to take the position that the existence of the soviet form of government in any country constitutes a casus belli; that the world would recoil from the proposal to begin a new series of war with so dubious an object; that Russia should be left to manage her own affairs End Quote. Editorial disagreed with policy of French Government ...
— Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him • Joseph P. Tumulty
... Est pulchre tibi cum tuo parente 5 Et cum coniuge lignea parentis. Nec mirum: bene nam valetis omnes, Pulchre concoquitis, nihil timetis, Non incendia, non graves ruinas, Non furta inpia, non dolos veneni, 10 Non casus alios periculorum. Atqui corpora sicciora cornu Aut siquid magis aridumst habetis Sole et frigore et essuritione. Quare non tibi sit bene ac beate? 15 A te sudor abest, abest saliva, Mucusque et mala pituita nasi. Hanc ad munditiem adde mundiorem, Quod culus tibi purior salillost, Nec toto ...
— The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus • Caius Valerius Catullus
... remittere ullam culpam nisi declarando, et approbando remissam a deo Aut certe remittendo casus reservatos sibi, quibus contemptis ...
— Martin Luther's 95 Theses • Martin Luther |
