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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.

The Marshals were founded when our nation was founded and from the earliest period, one of their key tasks has been apprehension. They are our fugitive enforcers in this country.

Quotes by William Barr

No offense to Iceland, but Latin America is where the fugitive leaker Edward Snowden should settle.

Quotes by Stephen Kinzer

We believe Russian-American relations are broader and larger than emotions and mutual grudges, including the situation with the U.S. fugitive Edward Snowden.

Quotes by Sergei Lavrov

Unless they're a fugitive or a felon, or adjudicated mentally ill, we're not against them buying guns at all.

Quotes by Sarah Brady

Against Quotes

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.

Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

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.

Quotes by Paul Horgan

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.

Quotes by Karen DeCrow

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

Quotes by Joan Rivers

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.

Quotes by Jay Alan Sekulow

America Quotes

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...

Quotes by Howie Carr

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

Quotes by Frederick Douglass

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.

Quotes by Edward Blake

A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice.

Quotes by Craig Brown

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

Art Quotes

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

Quotes by Bill Mauldin

Frequently Asked Questions

What legal history do these fugitive quotes reference?
The U.S. Marshals' long history of apprehension work, and the fugitive slave clause referenced in a courtroom scene from an opera.
Is Edward Snowden mentioned?
Yes, one quote references his search for a place to settle after leaving the U.S., described factually and without taking a political position.
Is there a quote about beauty?
Yes - it calls ideal beauty a fugitive that is never truly found, a more poetic use of the word.
What's the opera reference about?
It notes that knowing constitutional law helps in understanding the trial scene in 'Billy Budd.'
What's the common thread among these fugitive quotes?
The idea of something elusive, whether a person evading capture or beauty that can never quite be pinned down. See America quotes for related themes.

Another calls ideal beauty a fugitive never found, a poetic contrast to the legal references elsewhere. Explore Art quotes or Back quotes.