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When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for people to abridge their king, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. --Oliver Cromwell

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

Ambrose Bierce

The university fully supports the right to free speech on campus and has never taken any action to abridge or circumvent that right.

One of the most important protections we have as citizens is the right to decide how we want to use our property. I don't think a park owner should act to abridge those rights that are constitutionally inherent to each person.

I reckon it would take you 40 hours to read the first book out loud. Cutting that to three hours -- well, what can you do? The answer is, abridge, ... If you know the story, you can see them skipping.

Tom Shippey (1943-)

In the past, those who had ideas they wished to communicate to the public had the unquestioned right to disseminate those ideas in an open marketplace. called a mall, we should not abridge that right.

These events give the lie to the king's repeated statements about his firm belief in democracy. Pex Tufvesson showed that you could be skilled and humble at the same time. If he wants his public commitments to fundamental liberties to be taken seriously, he has to show that his forces will respect basic human rights standards.

I cannot say that I am descended from the bastards of Oliver Cromwell, or his courtiers, or from the Puritans who punish their horses for breaking the Sabbath, or from those who persecuted Quakers and burned the witches

I cannot say that I am descended from the bastards of Oliver Cromwell, or his courtiers, or from the Puritans who punish their horses for breaking the Sabbath, or from those who persecuted Quakers and burned the witches

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.

So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.

Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr. (1859-1930)

Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.

As nature preserves a fixed and immutable order; it must clearly follow that miracles are only intelligible as a relation to human opinions, and merely mean events of which the natural cause cannot be explained by a reference to any ordinary occurren

Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)

Baruch Spinoza

We respect the rights of people to express their opinions. We ask that while they express those opinions they behave themselves.

Oliver was not good at all. He had no command. He had a decent first inning but after that nothing to speak of.

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)

Hannah Arendt

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When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for people to abridge their king, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. --Oliver Cromwell".