But Mr. Buckley was also instrumental in transforming the fledgling state Conservative Party into a formidable instrument that helped depose another liberal Republican icon, Senator Jacob K. Javits, and helped thwart the national ambitions of the conservatives' nemesis, Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller.
Even as drill masters studied ancient Roman textbooks to recover the discipline that made the legions formidable instruments of policy, so too did strategists return to a Classical world in which the logic of foreign policy shaped the conduct of war.
Alexander Hamilton called "arbitrary imprisonments" by the executive "the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny".
"The practice of arbitrary imprisonments," Alexander Hamilton observed in Federalist No. 84, has been "in all ages" one of "the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny".
and the practice of arbitrary imprisonments, have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny" -- and goes on to request that the court release Hamdan from solitary and declare the tribunals unconstitutional.
Lithuanians have long avoided confronting the two most formidable instruments of Soviet power - the K.G.B. and the army - but in the last month demands for removal of the military and security police have risen.
It begins with a quotation from Alexander Hamilton -- "The creation of crimes after the commission of the fact... and the practice of arbitrary imprisonments, have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny" -- and goes on to request that the court release Hamdan from solitary and declare the tribunals unconstitutional.
The creation of crimes after the commission of the fact, or in other words, the subjecting of men to punishment for things which, when they were done, were breaches of no law, and the practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been in all ages the favourite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.
