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Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
George Washington

Religion, Experience, Reason

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry

Life, Peace, God

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.
Thomas Sowell

Freedom, Government, Long

I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.
Thomas S. Monson

Faith, Thoughts, House

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.
Sun Tzu

Fight, Fighting, Victory

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Power, Prevent, Lacks

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.
Ani DiFranco

God, Girl, Pretty

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
Josh Billings

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.
Andrew Jackson

Government, Feelings, Cannot

I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
Karl Lagerfeld

Health, Bad, Everybody

Actors have bodyguards and entourages not because anybody wants to hurt them - who would want to hurt an actor? - but because they want to get recognized. God forbid someone doesn't recognize them.
James Caan

God, Hurt, Someone

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
Rebecca West

God, Book, Practice

As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.
Jock Sturges

Bring, Soon, Shame

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
Sallust

Powerful, Light, Either

God forbid you sing about love. It's a lost concept.
Lenny Kravitz

Love, God, Lost

Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.
J. C. Watts

God, Forget, May

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
Geoffrey Chaucer

If you've been driving for a little while and nothing's happened to you yet - and you've been texting and driving - you think, 'Oh nothing's going to happen.' But all it takes is an accident happening with one of your friends or God forbid, something happening to you, to really give you a wake-up call.
Victoria Justice

God, Nothing, Happen

Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.
John McCarthy

Different, Same, Golf

And strictly forbid that any quarrelling be at your meals.
Robert Grosseteste

Meals, Strictly

It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.
Abel Ferrara

Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested.
Azar Nafisi

Become, Interested, Iran

At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.
Milla Jovovich

Age, Family, Fun

We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.
Angelina Grimke

Love, Great, God

This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way.
Jon Voight

Time, God, Strong

God forbid if David Crosby gets sick again and I can't tour anymore, or something happens where I can't get around, what am I going to live on? I'm going to be living on mechanicals. So I don't want to hear it.
Stephen Stills

God, Live, Living

I'd like to change my butt. It hangs a little too long. God forbid what it will look like when I'm older. It will probably be dragging along on the ground behind me.
Teri Hatcher

Change, God, Long

As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.
Isabel Paterson

Alone, Stand, Knows

I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.
Oscar Nunez

God, Remember, Big

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