Overturn Quotes
53 Overturn quotes by 52 unique authors
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The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet…
— Rick Boucher
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But shall gravity be therefore called an occult cause, and thrown out of philosophy, because the cause of gravity is occult and not yet discovered?…
— Roger Cotes
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While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners.
— Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
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Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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One of the worst consequences politically would be for the majority of Democrats to vote for someone who, in the near future, would overturn well-established…
— Ralph Neas
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A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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I don't advocate civil disobedience. I do advocate the role of an informed citizen to try to overturn when a court makes a mistake and…
— Rick Santorum
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What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the…
— Rand Paul
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I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a lone heretic. I…
— Steven Pinker
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President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.
— Mitt Romney
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I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the Congress and state legislatures do have the ability and…
— Bernie Sanders
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The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to…
— Lysander Spooner
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If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for…
— Ben Stein
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As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under…
— George Orwell
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic…
— Boris Pasternak
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Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.
— Alexandre Dumas
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My dad hates umbrellas, said Deeba, swinging her own. When it rains he always says the same thing. 'I do not believe the presence of…
— China Mieville
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Such power!" Adelaida cried all at once, peering greedily at the portrait over her sister's shoulder. "Where? What power?" Lizaveta Prokofyevna asked sharply. "Such beauty…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe…
— Dante Alighieri
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When you're young - when I was young - you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want…
— Julian Barnes
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There are no unique postures and times and limitations that restrict our access to God. My relationship with God is intimate and personal. The Christian…
— Ravi Zacharias
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When I was a teenager, science meshed with my developing ideals - such as the challenge to authority that was central to punk rock. In…
— Greg Graffin
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In the late 19th century, the Populists - a protest movement of mainly disaffected farmers and workers - threatened to overturn established authority.
— Robert Dallek
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