“It is totally unacceptable that Britain could be held to ransom in this kind of blockade raising out of a dispute in France.”
John Prescott
“The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.”
Bible
“'Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared, 'is rightfully a menial, of almost miraculous cunning, but no intelligence; it needs to be strongly governed, or it will destroy the economy of the household. Only a community of tough conservative habit can master it.”
Richard Weaver
“For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.”
“Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.”
“WFP was not asked for ransom,”
Rene McGuffin
“RANSOM, n. The purchase of that which neither belongs to the seller, nor can belong to the buyer. The most unprofitable of investments.”
Ambrose Bierce
