You are here: Quotes > Browse > Keywords > R > Reprisal Quotes

Reprisal Quotes


See also Core English Vocabulary (R) Quotes

"In this time when a citizenry applauds the liberation of a country as it lives in fear of its own freedom...when people all over the country fear reprisal if they use their right to free speech, it is time to get angry. It is time to get fierce."

- Tim Robbins

(That, in part, is why the Constitution`s framers gave justices life tenure - to enable them to rule wherever the law and the Constitution led them, without obligation or fear of political reprisal. Former Republican president Gerald Ford recently paid tribute to John Paul Stevens , his only appointee to the Supreme Court, who is also far more liberal than Republicans expected.) He has served his nation well, ... with dignity, intellect and without partisan political concerns.

- Gerald Ford

(That, in part, is why the Constitution`s framers gave justices life tenure '” to enable them to rule wherever the law and the Constitution led them, without obligation or fear of political reprisal. Former Republican president Gerald Ford recently paid tribute to John Paul Stevens, his only appointee to the Supreme Court, who is also far more liberal than Republicans expected.) He has served his nation well, ... with dignity, intellect and without partisan political concerns.

- Gerald Ford

Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.

- Alex Garwood

These women, out of fear of reprisal, contacted Senator Allard for help.

- Ann Holtz