Robbery Quotes

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
Calvin Coolidge

Necessary, Taxes, Collecting

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
George Washington

Bad, Lost, Away

Property is organized robbery.
George Bernard Shaw

Property, Organized

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint Augustine

Justice, Absence, Organized

We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene.
Jeff Cooper

Hurt, Long, Dead

You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.
Jessica Savitch

War, Die, Racing

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.
Johnny Carson

Together, Place, Taken

The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness - a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives.
Martha Plimpton

Time, Real, Else

I was involved in the robbery for a purpose, and that was because I knew somebody who could drive a diesel train. I was responsible to take along this old guy who could drive the train.
Ronald Biggs

Old, Purpose, Guy

It has been rumoured that I was the brains of the robbery, but that was totally incorrect. I've been described as the tea boy, which is also incorrect.
Ronald Biggs

Tea, Boy, Brains

But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote all about the bank robbery, I went ahead and printed it even though I had no use immunity for it.
Patty Hearst

Book, Before, Far

The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression.
Ramman Kenoun

Nation, Illusion, Oppression

Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions.
John Edward Redmond

Government, Country, Why

They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt.
Denis Kearney

Government, Science, Corruption

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.
Tony Hillerman

Great, Win, College

The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash.
James Chiles

Rise, Crime, Computer

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