Quotes with member-states

Quotes 361 till 364 of 364.

• You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.

  Caleb Cushing
  American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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• [On war debts incurred by foreign nations to the United States:] They hired the money, didn't they?

  c. 1925. Wit and Wisdom (1933)

  Calvin Coolidge
  American president (1872 - 1933)
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• [When told that he was making more than the president of the United States Herbert Hoover in 1930:] I had a better year than he did.

  Boston Globe, Will Rogers Dispatch by Will Rogers, January 9, 1930

  Babe Ruth
  American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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• President Obama's biggest advocates believe that Americans are ready to embrace his vision for the United States: a less muscular America on the world stage, an America with a more controlling executive branch and less conflict in the legislative branch, an America in which the government takes care of us, be we Pajama Boys or Julias.

  Ben Shapiro
  American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• constitution
• conventions
• controlling
• legislative
• government
• americans

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