Quotes About Refused

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused - preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.

A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who's been mugged by reality but has refused to press charges.

For generations America and its institutions have refused to acknowledge the true severity of the harm that domestic violence imposes on our society.

How could the FBI, with a million agents and a billion dollars, decline to pursue such blatant corruption? A man has been killed, yet the "Fibbies" refused to investigate. He was flabbergasted, even angry.

Mary found Elizabeth's letter so insulting, she refused to reply at all.

Francis asked his sister Margaret, Duchess of Alençon, to do the honours in her place, but she flatly refused to meet 'the King of England's whore'.

There is no need, in order to explain three-quarters of the opinions held about people, to go so far as a love that has been spurned or an exclusion from political power. Our judgment remains unsure: an invitation refused or received determines it.

He called him by his name, no doubt, but the divine historian thought not fit to record it, for, because he refused to raise up the name of the dead, he deserved not to have his name preserved to future ages in this history. Providence

The Mexican president refused to construct a pretense for paying for the wall, a pretense that might have redounded to his vast advantage (without his having to actually pay for the wall).

Blacks claim their identity and originality from the ancient Egyptian Empire, as do Arabs and Jews. The Whites refused to be left behind in this rat race to turn all Egyptians into whites too.