#resort

At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword. ↗

— Richard Cobden

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Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

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And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

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All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

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When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic. ↗

— David Bowie

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I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Observe which side resorts to the most vociferous name-calling and you are likely to have identified the side with the weaker argument and they know it. ↗

— Charles R. Anderson

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Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living. ↗

— John Agyekum Kufuor

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The government is becoming the family of last resort. ↗

— Jerry Brown

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The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's "Nightline." ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

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