Abuses Quotes

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One year ago, on this occasion, I called your attention to the abuses that had crept into the distribution of our public funds, and I… — J. Reuben Clark
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that… — Thomas Jefferson
There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them — Noam Chomsky
There is room in this great and growing city for a journal that is not only cheap but bright, not only bright but large, not… — Joseph Pulitzer
It is especially imperative for Congress to exercise careful judgment in this area, because of the difficulty under existing laws, in obtaining judicial review of… — John Shattuck
Third issue, and again I think it is important to note, anyone can make a mistake and any administration can make a mistake once in… — Jay Inslee
Anybody can claim to be a member of the ALF when rescuing animals, destroying "tools of torture" (such as research equipment) or financially depleting a… — Charlotte Laws
Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of… — James A. Garfield
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority. Unrestrained political authority,… — James F. Cooper
Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people. — Daniel Schorr
Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till they… — Isaac D'Israeli
There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have… — Max Baucus
We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions. — Jerry Brown
We are in the twilight of this earth. The societies and civilizations of human beings will not endure much longer because of their abuses of… — Frederick Lenz
Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to… — Christopher Dodd
No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses. — Raul Castro
Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on… — Linda Chavez
If you operate a TV or radio station, you have to have a license. It has nothing to do with fundamental freedom. It has to… — Robert Cailliau
When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless. — Sigmund Freud
For too long, Americans have fallen victim to financial abuses at the hands of predatory lenders that operate in the shadows. — Kay Hagan

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