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Quotes About Imperiously

There was no measure that required greater caution or more severe scrutiny than one to impose taxes or raise a loan, be the form what it may. I hold that government has no right to do either, except when the public service makes it imperiously necessary, and then only to the extent that it requires.
~ John C. Calhoun
With her trade and marine gone, Britain would lose the East Indies next, and "then France will dictate to us more imperiously than ever we did to Ireland.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
peremptorily.
~ Faith Martin
Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire and the beaten earth around it, and to plunge into the forest, and on and on, he knew not where or why; nor did he wonder where or why, the call sounding imperiously, deep in the forest.
~ Jack London