War and peace type products... cannot be added into a national product total until the differences in the valuation due to differences in the institutional mechanisms that determine their respective market prices are corrected for.
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
We cannot try to play in a manner that does not correspond to our players' characteristics.
We cannot just be a corridor to smuggle minerals out.
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.
You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.
Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.
It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, with full U.S. support and illegally using U.S. weapons.
A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball.
All religions accept that there is something called 'criminality.' And criminality cannot be excused by religious fervour.
We cannot afford to deliberately cripple our cities by transferring public tax dollars to private entities for benefits that are unclear at best.
Obama cannot erase the Second Amendment without crippling or controlling exercise of the First Amendment.
What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.
