Asset forfeiture is a mockery of the Bill of Rights. There is no presumption of innocence, no need to prove you guilty… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line…… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Humility, which Burke ranked high among the virtues, is the only effectual restraint upon this congenital vanity; yet our world has nearly… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
During the first period of our lives the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has been… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Privilege is presuming to speak for others you know nothing about.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.” — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Brennan writes, allowing for those exceptions violates the presumption of innocence twice:” — Radley Balko Copy Share Image
“We no longer harbor the naive presumption that things work out for the best.” — Mary T. Stimming Copy Share Image
For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption. — Vittorio Alfieri Copy Share Image
I want to challenge the presumption that the world cannot know it is the world unless there is an alternative to the… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail,… — Alonzo Church Copy Share Image
Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
“One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
...the very notion that a candidate should openly solicit votes violated the principled presumption that such behavior itself represented a confession of… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We dress them [children] in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. They are the last… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Repeat something enough and folks will start to believe it. Mr. Mount had always taken the position that the presumption of innocence… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It is well known that obedience is the chief among the initiatory virtues, for first it displaces presumption and then it engenders… — Diadochos of Photiki Copy Share Image
A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We start from the presumption that our people are talented and want to contribute. We accept that, without meaning to, our company… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
The birth of a new fact is always a wonderful thing to experience. It's dualistically called a "discovery" because of the presumption… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings, truth… — John Locke Copy Share Image
No human government has a right to enquire into private opinions, to presume that it knows them, or to act on that… — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He was doing missionary work. But from the outset he had little success in convincing his charges of their responsibility for a… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
As for the ethics, law, and politics relationship, there has always been a tension for me as I try to keep them… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 Some there are who presume so far on their wits that… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Could Stephen have met men on equal terms, she would always have chosen them as her companions; she preferred them because of… — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
It is evil to justify killing (unborn babies) by the happy outcome of eternity for the one killed. This same justification could… — John Piper Copy Share Image
When I was in the US, I felt that the discourse there surrounding Muslims as the other, problematising Muslims and Islam as… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“It is in vain for man to endeavor to instruct man in those things which the Holy Spirit alone can teach.” — Pere La Combe Copy Share Image
Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions. — Henry James Copy Share Image
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