Best Last Resort Sayings

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The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort. — Will Rogers
Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal… — Christopher Dawson
The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's 'Nightline.' — Alan Dershowitz
If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be… — Alan Dershowitz
You can't think about terrorism without thinking about Palestinian terrorism. Palestinians began international terrorism. It started with them in 1968. They used it as the… — Alan Dershowitz
The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone. — Victor Hugo
Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of… — King Hussein I
I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has… — Carl Jung
I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite… — P.J. O'Rourke
War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support. — Colin Powell
My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed. — Samantha Power
The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can… — Donald Rumsfeld
As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved… — Arlen Specter
What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary. — Tamora Pierce
Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as… — Ambrose Bierce
Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny… — Thomas Jefferson
Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort. — Dorothy Dunnett
Even though the discples were not aware of it, the presence was with them while they were reviewing the scriptures together on the road. Henceforth,… — Karen Armstrong
We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing… — Oswald Chambers

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