rule of the sword
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As a result, the rule of law overcame the rule of the sword.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
It was based on the rule of the sword.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
Since 1871 the object of every Prussian Government had been to reconcile the German people to the veiled rule of the sword by exhibiting results which, it was contended, could not otherwise have been secured.
From A Short History of the Great War by Pollard, A. F. (Albert Frederick)
The thin screen which the continuance of a little knot of representatives had thrown over the rule of the sword was at last torn away.
From History of the English People, Volume VI Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 by Green, John Richard
Instead of society itself having conquered a new point, only the State appears to have returned to its oldest form, to the simply brazen rule of the sword and the club.
From Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Marx, Karl
