(27 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
“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
“The rule which forbids ending a sentence with a preposition is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put.”
Winston Churchill
“It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.”
Potter Stewart
“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
“God forbid they will be in a close game and need a last-second shot.”
Cheryl Miller
“Oh! no! we never mention her, her name is never heard; my lips are now forbid to speak, that once familiar word.”
Thomas Haynes Bayly
“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
