Redress Quotes

54 quotes by 52 authors

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends. — A. S. Byatt
I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of… — Lord Byron
I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old. — George Canning
The same Constitution that allows her the right, if she wants to, to sit there and say nothing, allows these groups the right to petition… — Trey Gowdy
And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or… — Samuel Adams
When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor… — Abraham Lincoln
Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recover, reimagine, and… — Paul Hawken
When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress. — William Shakespeare
That morning I experienced vividly, if almost subliminally, the reality of change itself: how it fools our sentinels and undermines our defenses, how careful we… — Robert Grudin
If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it… — Alexander Hamilton
No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the case, they have… — John Dickinson
There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African underTutustanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as… — Desmond Tutu
Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms. — William Shakespeare
We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can… — Richard V. Allen
I've always been a big supporter of the Constitutional right of the people to peaceably assemble and petition government for redress of grievances. It's just… — Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
We must realize that today's establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If… — William O. Douglas
Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything… — Gore Vidal
I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient when… — Elizabeth Montagu
And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I… — Caleb Cushing
Suppose the hellfire of the orthodox really existed! We have no assurance that it does not! It seems incredible, but many incredible things are true.… — W.N.P. Barbellion

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