Violate

Famous quotes containing the word violate:

    The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    What Soft—Cherubic Creatures—
    These Gentlewomen are—
    One would as soon assault a Plush—
    Or violate a Star—
    Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)