Citizens Quote by Sol Wachtler Download Open image “[It] would allow citizens to set their own standards for the permissible use of force.” — Sol Wachtler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Citizens Force Standards Use Use of force
The protection of our citizens, the spirit and honor of our country, require that force should be interposed to a certain degree. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[It] is the interest as well as duty of a sovereign to maintain the authority of the laws. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is a duty for any government to uphold the rule of law, and this sometimes requires the proportionate use of force. — Frans Timmermans Copy Share Image
“[F]or any group determined to maintain a set of communal standards some mechanism of enforcement must exist.” — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
I think there should be national standards on the use of legal force. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their… — William Branch Giles Copy Share Image
A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“the common force cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, the liberty, or the property of individuals or of classes. For” — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them. — John Locke Copy Share Image
In the past, those who had ideas they wished to communicate to the public had the unquestioned right to disseminate those ideas in an… — Sol Wachtler Copy Share Image
We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary… — Sol Wachtler Copy Share Image
A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman. — Sol Wachtler Copy Share Image
A marriage license should not be viewed as a license for a husband to forcibly rape his wife with impunity. — Sol Wachtler Copy Share Image
You can, if you wish, think of it like the universe: Each case is a sun, and all the judges, lawyers and administrative personnel… — Sol Wachtler Copy Share Image
A grand jury would 'indict a ham sandwich,' if that's what you wanted. — Sol Wachtler Copy Share Image
Politics is not an issue whether you like or dislike , but every citizen must involve. — Khem Veasna Copy Share Image
The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
“The police ultimately pay the price for poor customer service when citizens become fearful of them.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends. — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen… — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis. — Lawrence Bender Copy Share Image
I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
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