“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”
Thomas Jefferson
“O Prophet! why do you forbid (yourself) that which Allah has made lawful for you; you seek to please your wives; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.”
quran
“I absolutely forbid any such outrage.”
George Bernard Shaw
“We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.”
William J. Brennan Jr.
“He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it”
Seneca
“It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.”
Potter Stewart
“Heaven forbid we have anything like (Hurricane) Katrina, where it takes forever to help people. A community full of people my age needs all the help it can get.”
David Mitchell
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