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Fugitive Quotes
On fleeing, seeking, and never quite found.
One quote traces the Marshals' role in apprehension since the nation's founding, tying law enforcement to the word fugitive. Read America quotes for more national history.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Edward
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- Nov 07, 2020
No offense to Iceland, but Latin America is where the fugitive leaker Edward Snowden should settle.
- Broader
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- Nov 07, 2020
We believe Russian-American relations are broader and larger than emotions and mutual grudges, including the situation with the U.S. fugitive Edward Snowden.
- Guns
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unless they're a fugitive or a felon, or adjudicated mentally ill, we're not against them buying guns at all.
- Independence
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most valuable writers are those in whom we find not themselves, or ourselves, or the fugitive era of their lifetimes, but the common vision of all times.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over.
- Edgar
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, back in the 1950s and '60s, when J. Edgar Hoover was making the FBI the respected organization it used to be, oftentimes they would find a fugitive and basically have his house surrounded, and then put out a press release saying he was on the top 10 most wanted list. And 10 minutes later, he'd be arrested.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020