Peculiar Quotes

555 Peculiar quotes by 448 unique authors

This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost importance. It forms… — Alexander Hamilton
Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he has made his… — Thomas Jefferson
If they are incorporated into the Constitution, independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those rights; they will… — James Madison
If it were possible to transfer the methods of physical or of biological science directly to the study of man, the transfer would long ago… — Unknown Author
There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing… — George Eliot
[T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is an evident opposition, the laws ought to give… — Alexander Hamilton
Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. — Thomas Jefferson
The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by the… — Alexander Hamilton
Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural law . .… — Joseph Story
In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has a property of peculiar value… — James Madison
Anyone involved with songwriting will testify to the fact that each song, no matter how pure or from the heart, has its own story, its… — Unknown Author
In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which… — Unknown Author
Mo Yan is a writer who, defiantly in the face of those who wish his work were less cartoonish and more straightforward in its political… — Unknown Author
A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law… — Rowan Atkinson
I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film… — John Hurt
Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art. — Man Ray
It seems strange that the Mother of the race should be made the Slave of the Fruits of her Womb. It appears peculiar that she… — Hilton Hotema
A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct — Aldo Leopold
And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment; it is transient as all… — Zadie Smith
But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either party? The ultimate… — Thomas Jefferson
Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It is the peculiar province of the legislature to prescribe general rules for the government of society; the application of those rules to individuals in… — John Marshall
Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sectEqual… — James Madison
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace. — John Dryden
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use… — Chinua Achebe

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