The risk of imprisonment never occurs, indeed, to people of high character, and in the same way the ultimate sanctions of the law are not usually present in the minds of men in English public life.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
He has no wife to share his sorrows, or to partake his joys; for neither law nor public opinion sanctions the marriage of slaves!
"Slavery and the Constitution"
William Ingersoll Bowditch
"Then," said Stephen, "what Mr. Brinsmade sanctions is not for me to question."
"The Crisis, Volume 7"
Winston Churchill