(24 quotes found)
“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
“I absolutely forbid any such outrage.”
George Bernard Shaw
“It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.”
Potter Stewart
“He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it”
Seneca
“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.
“If we don't, we could end up with Democrats in the Legislature and, Heaven forbid, a liberal like Chris Bell for governor.”
Dan Patrick
“But it doesn't mean if, God forbid, this opportunity is missed that we have to turn our backs to each other and say, 'Alas, there's no peace between us,'”
Yossi Beilin
“God forbid they will be in a close game and need a last-second shot.”
Cheryl Miller
“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
“God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!”
William Blake
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