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Abolished Quotes
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We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished. (Quote by - Joshua A. Norton)
Wise men, though all laws were abolished, would lead the same lives. (Quote by - Aristophanes)
It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an ax the desires of men. (Quote by - Walter Lippmann)
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
The cruel farming practice has basically been abolished. (Quote by - Wang Wei)
Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it. (Quote by - Germaine Greer)
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. (Quote by - Thomas Huxley)
City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure. (Quote by - L. Neil Smith)
Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; they'll give you as many chances as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHIN. (Quote by - Bill Gates)
We have seen reports that ... there is no distinction between 'abolish' and 'ceasing activity' and that the effect of Taiwan's action earlier this week was to abolish the Council. (Quote by - Adam Ereli)
The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my stay. (Quote by - George Grey)
Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses. (Quote by - Walter Duranty)
We've consistently seen, since the late 1990s, that more than half of women believe that abortion should be severely restricted or abolished altogether. (Quote by - Faye Wattleton)
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education. (Quote by - Robert Charles Winthrop)