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We are tired out in making complaints and getting no redress. -- Joseph Brant
I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old. -- George Canning
Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends. -- A. S. Byatt
A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation. -- Thomas Francis Meagher
You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available. -- Harold H. Greene
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail. -- Lord Byron
And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress. -- Caleb Cushing
We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted. -- Richard V. Allen
Things past redress are now with me past care -- William Shakespeare
rejected both the appropriateness of an apology and of monetary redress. -- John J. McCloy
There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms. -- William Shakespeare
When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress. -- William Shakespeare
I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient when there be no redress. -- Elizabeth Montagu
The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature. -- George Minot
Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner. -- Samuel Johnson
It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence. -- Theodore Roosevelt
No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate? -- William Wilberforce
If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify. -- Alexander Hamilton
There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law. -- Abraham Lincoln
Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress. -- Judith Martin
Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance. -- Imran Khan
Countries that perceive themselves to be vulnerable can be expected to try to redress that vulnerability - and in some cases, they will pursue clandestine weapons programs. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress. -- Elizabeth Montagu
Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress. -- Margaret Heffernan
The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature. -- George Minot
Civil society must be strengthened to help raise awareness among people living with HIV, and those at risk, of their rights, and to ensure they have access to legal services and redress through the courts. -- Shereen El Feki
It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of the North have hitherto acquiesced in it, lest, in the endeavor to redress it in violation of the Constitution, greater evils might ensue. -- Jay Alan Sekulow
People in this country need to understand when you go to any airport in the United States, you are not protected by the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. They can do anything they want to you, and there is no where you can go to seek redress. -- Jesse Ventura
In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment. -- Naomi Wolf
As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction. -- Ambrose Bierce
Heaven's slow but sure redress of human ills. -- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Habit is Heaven's own redress: it takes the place of happiness. -- Alexander Pushkin
to be reasonable one should never complain but when one hopes redress. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
Revenge is not redress. Revenge is a wheel, and it turns backwards. -- Terry Pratchett
Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress. -- Georges Braque
We need to celebrate stories by women, for women, as just one more way to redress gender injustice. -- Shami Chakrabarti
Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recover, reimagine, and reconsider. -- Paul Hawken
It is a rule that those who come into a Court of justice to seek redress, must come with clean hands, and must disclose a transaction warranted by law. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress. -- Geoffrey Chaucer
The same Constitution that allows her the right, if she wants to, to sit there and say nothing, allows these groups the right to petition their government for redress. -- Trey Gowdy
Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of sXXXch, or the right of the people peaceably to XXXemble, and to peXXXion the government for a redress of grievances. -- Marc Rotenberg
The means that heaven yields must be embraced, and not neglected; else, if heaven would, and we will not heaven's offer, we refuse the proffered means of succor and redress. -- William Shakespeare
The people shall not be restrained from peacefully assembling and consulting for their common good, nor from applying to the legislature by petitions, or remonstrances for redress of their grievances. -- James Madison
We must realize that today's establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution. -- William O. Douglas

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