Seized Quotes

With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power. - Ezra Stiles

Whether the police or a school want to search or seize a person, it has to be done in a manner that's reasonable. There was no reason to suspect any single person in that hallway, yet every single person in there was forced, with no choice, and seized by police in a completely unreasonable manner. - Graham Boyd

Where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility. - Lyndon B. Johnson

When Germany awoke, a man's home was no longer his castle. He could be seized by private individuals, could claim no protection from the police, could be indefinitely detained without preferment of charges; his property could be seized, his verbal and written communications overheard and perused; he no longer had the right to foregather with his fellow countrymen, and his newspapers might no longer freely express their opinions. - Douglas Reed

We've wanted to get into the area for some time. We just saw an opportunity and seized it. - Carl Main

We've said from the start that there was no doctor shopping, but Mr. Limbaugh should not have to give up his right to doctor-patient confidentiality to prove his innocence. The medical records that the State has seized and reviewed now for nearly six months show that Mr. Limbaugh received legitimate medical treatment for legitimate medical reasons. - Roy Black

Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better. - Hesiod

We seized the right opportunities and were in the right place at the right time with the right group of people, and it worked out. - Alan Cohen