A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
Thomas Jefferson

A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.
Nikki Giovanni

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
Anthony Trollope

A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests.
Alma Gluck

Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so.
Bob Geldof

AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solution found by the entire international community. It is really scary to see and imagine our world fall into pieces because we refuse to share and put in the common vestiges of our civilizations.
Sarah Polley

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
Edward V. Lucas

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
James A. Michener

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
Orlando A. Battista

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.
Al Hirschfeld

As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.
Jeanette Rankin

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
Ronald Reagan

By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
Victoria Woodhull

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
Horace

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
Louis E. Boone

Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Every day President Bush and Congress refuse to fulfill their obligation to special ed is another day Wisconsin property taxpayers are stuck with the bill. It's unfair, irresponsible and must stop.
Jim Doyle

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.
Evelyn Underhill

Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets.
Judith Light

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.
Matthew Prior