Charter Quotes

126 quotes by 104 authors

Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a… — Karen Armstrong
I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and… — Michele Bachmann
The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time… — Benazir Bhutto
Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi… — Bono
I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests with… — Richard Branson
As professor of global peace studies at the International Islamic University of Malaysia I am committed to the ending of war also through criminalization of… — Johan Galtung
The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition of birth, no… — Theodore Dwight Weld
As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be… — Bruce Barton
The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the… — Ayn Rand
Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of… — Henry David Thoreau
Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether… — Florence Ellinwood Allen
As a progressive discipline [biochemistry] belongs to the present century. From the experimental physiologists of the last century it obtained a charter, and, from a… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
"a fatal and perhaps fateful error of judgment" "...this was the last chance for the United Nations to get a grip on themselves and apply… — Alec Douglas-Home
As the people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of… — James Madison
In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by Power. In America ... charters of power [are] granted by liberty. — James Madison
Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression… — Winston Churchill
I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to be a new form of the ten commandments. They lay the foundation for a sustainable global… — Mikhail Gorbachev
Perhaps because the challenges we face in our country are so daunting, we are also tempted by shortcuts. We tell ourselves that if we invent… — Helen Zille
The money problem facing the country from 1789 to 1896 existed because Congress never exercised is authority to "coin money or regulate the value thereof"… — William Jennings Bryan
Our liberties do not come from charters; for these are only the declaration of pre-existing rights. They do not depend on parchments or seals; but… — John Dickinson

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