The electors see their representative not only as a legislator for the state but also as the natural protector of local interests… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
What you are about to hear is God's word to the men of this nation. We are going to war as of… — Bill McCartney Copy Share Image
An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. Certainly he ought not so… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Before the advent of Hitler or Stalin, who took their power from the German and the Russian people, measures were thrust upon… — Edwin Arthur Hall Copy Share Image
There are new ways of producing food, film, clothing, and research that steer clear of using animals. Some of those products are… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
I care very much about women and their progress. I didn't go march in the streets, but when I was in the… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
Well we didn't look at it like that. We looked at it: "Why Carolyn Maloney?" Of course, we didn't know about Caroline… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Four states where [Democrats] have the governorship and both houses of the legislature. That's it. They have lost seats. They are not… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit. In the great chess board of human society,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of the State, i.e. the legislature, the… — P. Sathasivam Copy Share Image
If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The problem with party politics is that people get involved every two or four years and that is it. In the meantime,… — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
For the same reason that the members of the State legislatures will be unlikely to attach themselves sufficiently to national objects, the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a World Government, patterned after our Own Government with a legislature,… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Although I entertain great respect and regard for the female sex I consider the qualifications of the ladies to be already sufficiently… — James Francis Copy Share Image
The regular distribution of power into distinct departments; the introduction of legislative balances and checks; the institution of courts composed of judges… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is perfectly evident to any logical mind that when you have got the vote, by the proper use of the vote… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts,… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
What’s happened is that, almost overnight, we’ve switched from democracy in real-property recording to oligarchy in real-property recording. There was no court… — Christopher Peterson Copy Share Image
The Laws of Nature are the Laws of God, Whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth. A legislature must… — George Mason Copy Share Image
I think [John Adams's] influence on the federal Constitution was indirect. Many including James Madison mocked the first volume of Adams's Defence… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
It is of course true that any kind of judicial legislation is objectionable on the score of the limited interests which a… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The primary purpose of the Legislature in establishing "Arbor Day," was to develop and stimulate in the children of the Commonwealth a… — Andrew S. Draper Copy Share Image
Whether a law be void for its repugnancy to the Constitution, is, at all times, a question of much delicacy, which out… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
It does look like it's almost like South Africa to this extent: You have a white - what's the word - feeble… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
It equally proves, that though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers believed devoutly that there was a God and that the unalienable rights of man were rooted - not in… — Tom C. Clark Copy Share Image
I see a trend here where the President seems to think his job is to count votes and then try to make… — Anthony Weiner Copy Share Image
We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
A local spirit will infallibly prevail much more in the members of Congress than a national spirit will prevail in the legislatures… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If all the Legislature wants to do is turn their back on students and teachers then West Virginia will stay stuck at… — Jim Justice Copy Share Image
Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature. It has gone from being a sending country… — Alan Bersin Copy Share Image
I'm pro-life. I'll do all I can to see every baby is created with a future and potential. The legislature should do… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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