Our System Quotes
113 quotes by 106 authors
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When you're...stepping over a guy on the sidewalk...does it ever occur to you to think, 'Wow. Maybe our system doesn't work?'
— Bill Hicks
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The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system.
— Tom C. Clark
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Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system.
— Woodrow Wilson
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Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people leave prison more…
— Piper Kerman
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Our system of government is one of checks and balances. It requires compromise.. compromise between the Executive and the Parliament, compromise between one House and…
— Peter Costello
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Our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and tries to make…
— Piper Kerman
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We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government…
— Chris Patten
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I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles…
— Andrew Jackson
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To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in…
— Noah Webster
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America's foreign policy supports freedom, democracy, and human dignity for all mankind, and we make no apologies for it. The opportunity society that we want…
— Ronald Reagan
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I swore an oath to uphold the laws on the books . Now, I know some people want me to bypass Congress and change the…
— Barack Obama
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It is very important to understand that pluralism is part of our system. We don't all think the same thing and part of our strength…
— James Dobson
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None of this is fair to you. And should it continue, it will make it more difficult to keep attracting the kind of driven, patriotic,…
— Barack Obama
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Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on or motivated to…
— William Thurston
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Imperishable moments and immortal deeds, death itself and love stronger than death, will be as though they had never been. The energies of our system…
— Arthur Balfour
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We boast of our system of education, but why stop at schoolmasters and schoolhouses? We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is the universe. To…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Our system freed the individual genius of man. Released him to fly as high & as far as his own talent & energy would take…
— Ronald Reagan
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I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.
— Edmund Barton
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Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the…
— Nelson A. Miles
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Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students…
— Pranab Mukherjee
Who Wrote These Our System Quotes
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