Charters Quotes
21 quotes by 16 authors
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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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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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In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example . . . of charters of power granted by liberty.…
— James Madison
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Every British Subject born on the continent of America, or in any other of the British dominions, is by the law of God and nature,…
— James Otis
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The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Peace does not rest in charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of the people.
— John F. Kennedy
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One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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If charter schools are not more successful on average than the public schools they replace, what is accomplished by demolishing public education? What is the…
— Diane Ravitch
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We have not enjoyed unmolested those rights which the constitution of the U.S.A. and our Charters grant.
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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As compacts, charters of government are superior in obligation to all others, because they give effect to all others. As truths, none can be more…
— James Madison
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The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters.
— James Madison
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Support charters; insist on change for failing schools.
— Newt Gingrich
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No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
— Walter Lippmann
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All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish.
— Heinrich Heine
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Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy…
— Gary Larson
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Five Great Charters knit the land Together linked, hand in hand One in the people who wear the crown Two in the folk who keep…
— Garth Nix
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Peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest…
— John F. Kennedy
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Corporations are created by the people, acting through their governments. We grant them corporate charters that confer certain legal rights and privileges, like the ability…
— Jim McGovern
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The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.
— Albert Bushnell Hart
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Then we have a World Run, where representatives from all the charters meet.
— Chuck Zito
Who Wrote These Charters Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 21 Charters Quotes as follows: