Vindicate

Famous quotes containing the word vindicate:

    Laugh where we must, be candid where we can;
    But vindicate the ways of God to Man.
    Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    I met a Californian who would
    Talk California—a state so blessed
    He said, in climate, none had ever died there
    A natural death, and Vigilance Committees
    Had had to organize to stock the graveyards
    And vindicate the state’s humanity.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them.
    François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)