#resort

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#kings #last #paving #people #resort

You do a clean show and it's over and the audience have enjoyed themselves and you've enjoyed yourself, and you haven't had to resort to shock. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#clean #enjoyed #had #haven #over

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support. ↗

— Colin Powell

#last #our #our people #people #politics

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#had #only #reason #resort #ridicule

The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#better #federal #federal government #first #government

Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned should always be a last resort. ↗

— Dennis Cardoza

#back #benefits #constituents #cutting #earned

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

— Alan Dershowitz

#last #longer #resort #supreme #supreme court

If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#administered #approval #case #court #done

We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort. ↗

— John Perkins

#been #built #comes #done #empire

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president. ↗

— James Baker

#election #first #first time #happens #history