"We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have……" — Robert Byrd
"We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends."
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29 Quotes by Robert Byrd
Robert Byrd has 29 quotes on this site.
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One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll…
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Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side.…
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To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be…
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It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.
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Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.
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Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.
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The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give…
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This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.
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Congress is not an ATM.
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Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother.
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Can it be that we, too, are ready to embrace the foul concepts of atheism? Somebody is tampering with America's…
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I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side. ... Rather I should die a…
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Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But…
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China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.
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Romania will not be able to evolve if it continues to take cruel decisions against sensitive creatures, which are under…
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a…
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
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Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
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I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people…
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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of…
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Terror made me cruel.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
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