Redress Quotes

Redress Quote of the day

Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Habit is Heaven's own redress: it takes the place of happiness.

By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.

The means that heaven yields must be embraced, and not neglected; else, if heaven would, and we will not heaven's offer, we refuse the proffered means of succor and redress.

We are tired out in making complaints and getting no redress.

It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights. The reason is that one fears to be thought of as an arrant braggart.

Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.

rejected both the appropriateness of an apology and of monetary redress.

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient when there be no redress.

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.

A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress

The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature.

Things past redress are now with me past care

Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

We must realize that today's establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.

And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress.

We need to celebrate stories by women, for women, as just one more way to redress gender injustice.

I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.

Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recover, reimagine, and reconsider.

Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress.

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

Heaven's slow but sure redress of human ills.

It is a rule that those who come into a Court of justice to seek redress, must come with clean hands, and must disclose a transaction warranted by law.

to be reasonable one should never complain but when one hopes redress.

REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction.

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of sXXXch, or the right of the people peaceably to XXXemble, and to peXXXion the government for a redress of grievances.