Forbid Us Quotes
13 quotes by 7 authors
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim tribute to…
— George Washington
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Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.
— George Washington
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We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that…
— Thomas Jefferson
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How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our…
— Oscar Wilde
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Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality…
— George Washington
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To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
— Michel de Montaigne
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When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle
— George Washington
Who Wrote These Forbid Us Quotes
7 authors contributed a total of 13 Forbid Us Quotes as follows: