Quote by Herman Melville
There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at tr

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future. – Herman Melville

Other quotes by Herman Melville

A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty. – Herman Melville

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Obedience
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The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head – Herman Melville

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Sailing
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And thats the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions. – John Grisham

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Future

I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be. – Maurice Sendak

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Future

Theres no point in making predictions. Its not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future. – Cristiano Ronaldo

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Future

I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted its the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future. – Muhammad Yunus

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Future

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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. – Turkish Proverb

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Coffee

I challenge you to be dreamers I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better. – Brian Schweitzer

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Dreams

As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that todays workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system. – Steve Israel

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finance

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things. – Muhammad Yunus

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environmental