Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone. — John A. Macdonald Copy Share Image
This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
Brandon McCaw did a question about Federalism is a politicial system in which two or more distinct levels of government share and… — Brandon Mccaw Copy Share Image
Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor… — John Adams Copy Share Image
When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the rest have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“On January 27, 1778, the -Articles of Confederation-, recently adopted by Congress, were debated here [Montague, Massachusetts]. It was 'voted to approve… — Edward Pearson Pressey Copy Share Image
I am challenging Ezer Weizman to accept the democratic state where both of us can live in this democratic state. What confederation?… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade unions of all the countries speaking… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
As in forming a political society, each individual contributes some of his rights, in order that he may, from a common stock… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Great promise and responsibility await Canada. As we look ahead to the next 150 years, we will continue to rise to the… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
“In examining the division of powers, as established by the Federal Constitution, remarking on the one hand the portion of sovereignty which… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I have the highest veneration of those Gentleman, -- but, Sir, give me leave to demand, what right had they to say,… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray… — Kim Campbell Copy Share Image
“The great and radical vice in the construction of the existing Confederation is in the principle of LEGISLATION for STATES or GOVERNMENTS,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Our articles of confederation ought to be revised and measures immediately taken to invigorate the Continental Union. Depend upon it: there lies… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an adequate security… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
I have a solution. I agree for the United Nations forces to be on the borders between me and them for any… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
The Gold Cup really is about getting the job done and winning it and qualifying us for the Confederations Cup in Russia… — Jurgen Klinsmann Copy Share Image
Jealousy, and local policy mix too much in all our public councils for the good government of the Union. In a words,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“The movement for the Constitution of the United States was originated and carried through principally by four groups of personalty interests which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them (the framers of… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
“Smartass Disciple: Why men don't ready yet to join the intergalactic confederation? Master of Stupidity: Men could make them laugh to death.… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus… — Barbara Ann Radnofsky Copy Share Image
I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so as to… — William Whipple Copy Share Image
When the Canadian confederation took place in 1867, a lot of people in Quebec said, 'Could we have a referendum?' They said,… — Jacques Parizeau Copy Share Image
Can we expect the redemption of the world from scholars? I doubt it. But the time has come for all artists to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I think the gap between Israelis and Palestinians is too deep to be bridged in our generation. Politically, we are in favor… — Ayelet Shaked Copy Share Image
Clearly, if Confederation is to survive another 100 years, Canada must find a national esprit de corps. Cohesion cannot depend indefinitely on… — Eric Nicol Copy Share Image
Brandon McCaw did a essay on Television about the U.S.district courts are the trial courts serving as the original point of entry… — Brandon McCaw Copy Share Image
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