A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.
Kent McCord

Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.
Robert Casey

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
Douglas Horton

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
Tacitus

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John Adams

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
Xavier Becerra

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
Alan Greenspan

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
Jean de La Fontaine

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.
Charles Bradlaugh

Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.
Peter Singer

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
Charles de Secondat

But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin

By finding waste and abuse in entitlement programs, and eliminating it, we can ensure that the funds that are put into these programs go to the people that need them the most.
Jim Ryun

Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
Warren E. Burger

Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.
Matt Blunt

Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.
Rick Larsen

Craft brewers are committed to promoting the safe and moderate consumption of their beverage, and work closely with their communities to prevent underage drinking and alcohol abuse.
Sherwood Boehlert

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
Ernest Hemingway

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
Jorge Luis Borges

Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
Armstrong Williams