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Letter "P" » plea
«A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.»
«I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.»
«Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.»
Author: William Pitt the younger
(Prime Minister)
| About:
Necessity
| Keywords:
creed, infringement, plea, The Argument, tyrants
«While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| Keywords:
arrogation, autonomy, cultural, norm, norms, plea, rationalism, stifle, The Social
«Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.»
Author: William Allen White
(Journalist)
| Keywords:
outraged, outrages, plea, temperately, Tramples
«Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice»
«Necessity, the tyrant's plea»
«We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
Cain, insanity, insanity plea, plea, saved
«(Twain on Cain): it was his misfortune to live in a dark age that knew not the beneficent Insanity Plea»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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beneficent, Cain, dark ages, insanity plea, plea, twain
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