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Redress Quotes

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

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

Benjamin Disraeli
Preparation, Redress, Conservatism
'Coningsby' (1844) bk. 2, ch. 5

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

Alexander Pushkin
Heaven, Habit, Redress
Alexander Pushkin (2009). “Eugene Onegin”, p.88, The Overlook Press

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

Joseph Brant
Tired, Redress, Complaints

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.

Elizabeth Kenny
Community, Reason, Redress

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

John J. McCloy
Apology, Rejection, Redress

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Redress, Calamity, Right Words

Heaven's slow but sure redress of human ills.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Justice, Heaven, Redress

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

Mary Wortley Montagu
Complaining, Should, Redress
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1856). “The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.40

REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction.

Ambrose Bierce
Satisfaction, Redress, Reparations
Ambrose Bierce (2004). “The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary”, p.40, See Sharp Press

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