Downright Quotes
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
Patrick Henry
If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies.
Paul Farmer
Writing old school HTML code was never very much fun but now it's getting downright tedious for most people.
Mike Davidson
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
John Adams
So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.
Randall Terry
I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television.
Tom Petty
The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin