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I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children.

Russia under President Putin is less democratic and less free today than when he assumed office. If Russia cannot fulfill its obligation to the G-8 and maintain a high standard of democratic governance then its membership should be suspended.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.

Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules.

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying.

The Conservative Party is not honouring the commitment to Lords reform and, as a result, part of our contract has now been broken. Clearly I cannot permit a situation where Conservative rebels can pick and choose the parts of the contract they like, while Liberal Democrat MPs are bound to the entire agreement.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.