“The fight against methamphetamine must be won. We cannot allow our children's lives to be devastated by this scourge.”
Brian Baird
“Malaria kills and its main victims are children and women. We can stop this scourge so people can live with dignity and go to work and school.”
Youssou N'Dour
“Israel salutes the United States, which has proven once again that it will fight the scourge of terrorism which, as last week's bombings in east Africa have shown, endanger the entire free world.”
Zalman Shoval
“War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.”
Cardinal Richelieu
“I see / The lost are like this, and their scourge to be / As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
“The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation -- the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.”
David Lloyd George
“Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.”
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