Charter Quotes
126 quotes by 104 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by Power. In America ... charters of power [are] granted by liberty.
— James Madison
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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