A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great… — Thomas Francis Meagher Copy Share Image
The means that heaven yields must be embraced, and not neglected; else, if heaven would, and we will not heaven's offer, we… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Countries that perceive themselves to be vulnerable can be expected to try to redress that vulnerability - and in some cases, they… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
“It could always be worse, they say. They don't like to say that it could always be better, because that would require… — Sarah Kendzior Copy Share Image
Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
As long as we are human, we are destined to make mistakes. We all fall prey to flawed beliefs and views. What… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights.… — Elizabeth Kenny Copy Share Image
America overflows with specious "victims" demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring… — George Will Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African underTutustanding is far more restorative - not so much… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We Christians forget (if we ever learned) that attempts to redress real or imagined injustice by violent means are merely another exercise… — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
I believe military force can be used to redress or change the balance of power in the world, but I think that… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
It was not by accident or coincidence that the rights to freedom in speech and press were coupled in a single guaranty… — Wiley Blount Rutledge Copy Share Image
I want you to pledge to yourselves in this convention to stand as one solid army against the foes of human labor.… — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
Liberals want to set up social welfare committees to help whites and West Indians love each other in Birmingham. But all such… — Lewis Nkosi Copy Share Image
Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
The duty imposed upon him [the president] to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people from religion; that amendment was written to protect religion… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
What is hateful is not rebellion but the despotism which induces the rebellion; what is hateful are not rebels but the men,… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with… — Richard V. Allen Copy Share Image
We must realize that today's establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
That morning I experienced vividly, if almost subliminally, the reality of change itself: how it fools our sentinels and undermines our defenses,… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
I prophesy in the name of the Lord God of Israel, unless the United States redress the wrongs committed upon the Saints… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of the North… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild,… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
The right of the people to peacefully assemble and petition their government for a redress of grievances is now worth a pitcher… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People in this country need to understand when you go to any airport in the United States, you are not protected by… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
Require nothing unreasonable of your officers and men, but see that whatever is required be punctually complied with. Reward and punish every… — George Washington Copy Share Image
When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Speaking generally, I think it's useful to acknowledge explicitly the power imbalance between a journalist and the protagonists in a story about… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
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