Last Resort Quotes

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When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic. — David Bowie
In the life of nations, what in the last resort decides questions is a kind of Judgment Court of God... Always before god and the… — Adolf Hitler
If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our… — C.S. Lewis
A tolerant society is one in which we criminalise an activity only as a last resort. Toleration is not just about allowing people to do… — John Gummer
Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current… — Arthur Ashe
When the passer's back foot hit the ground on his setup, I wanted the ball gone. If no one was open, if he had to… — Sid Gillman
Some of our businesses use more energy than others, but our strategy everywhere is the same.. first, reduce our use of energy as much as… — Rupert Murdoch
What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part [the necessary and proper clause] of the Constitution and exercise powers… — James Madison
Those entrapped by the herd instinct are drowned in the deluges of history. But there are always the few who observe, reason, and take precautions,… — Antony C. Sutton
Guns aren't just a tool of last resort. They're awesome. That's why people stroke them. And name them, and take pictures with them. You guys… — Bill Maher
Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all… — Thomas Jefferson
War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort. — Wesley Clark
Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in that cradle. Peace… — Jefferson Davis
Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life. — Naguib Mahfouz
In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all. — Hans Kung
Prayer is an investment. The time you dedicate to prayer isn't lost; it will return dividends far greater than what a few moments spent on… — Charles R. Swindoll
The only thing workers have to bargain with is their skill or their labor. Denied the right to withhold it as a last resort, they… — Paul Clark
Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as colonials. Independence was… — Samuel Eliot Morison
Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed. — George Osborne
I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour… — Albert Einstein

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