trample on
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Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.
We see ourselves confronted with pure abstraction. Small problems and highly obscure subjects are, if you will, always grand in intention, and the layman would casually and quite undisparagingly trample on them if they were to serve as carpet motifs.
We may be a small community and a Half-breed community at that - but we are men, free and spirited men, and we will not allow even the Dominion of Canada to trample on our rights.
Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.
I am happy enough to think I have the present the real love of my subjects, and lay it down for certain that if I do not show them that I will not permit Ministers to trample on me, that my subjects will in time come to esteem me unworthy of the Crown I wear.
A great man will not trample on a worm, nor sneak to an emperor.