There was great wisdom sententiously exprest in the exclamation
of a little constable I heard of once who went to arrest a burly
offender against the statutes, and was threatened with a shaking
if he did not “clear out.” If it had been a matter of fists
and muscle, the majesty of the law would have been miserably
bruised. But the intrepid officer responded: “Do it if you
please; only remember, if you shake me you shake the whole State
of Massachusetts.”--THOMAS STARR KING.
(2703)
=Repression=--See POWER IN SELF-REPRESSION.