Quotes with by-laws

Quotes 161 till 180 of 240.

  • Arthur Capper Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with a full and free expression of the people's choice in naming the candidates to be voted on at general elections.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Bill Keller Since September 11 2001, editors in America have faced some excruciating choices, as the attempt to wage a war against a new kind of enemy sometimes strained the boundaries of our laws and values.
    Bill Keller
    American journalist (1949 - )
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  • Carol Moseley Braun So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Friedrich Engels Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
    Friedrich Engels
    German industrialist, philosopher and social scientist (1820 - 1895)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
    Homeland and Other Stories
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders States used to protect consumers from predatory lenders, but strong state usury laws were obliterated by a 1978 U.S. Supreme Court decision.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • John Ruskin Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • James Thurber The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Samuel Johnson The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, for we that live to please, must please to live.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Carol Bellamy The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being made, laws passed or actions undertaken.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • C. S. Lewis The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • William James The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Adam Weishaupt The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Carl Sagan The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Orson Welles The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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