Preamble Quotes

22 quotes by 21 authors

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and… — B R Ambedkar
Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance. Old age is… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting… — Thomas Jefferson
The Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider it purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it… — Frederick Douglass
Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson,… — Abraham Lincoln
In a thousand words I can have the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm, the Hippocratic Oath, a sonnet by Shakespeare, the Preamble to the Constitution,… — Roy H. Williams
Id like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else. — Marissa Ribisi
We do, in former chairman Lee Atwater's words, offer the party as a big tent, and therefore that message has to be clear. How we… — Dan Quayle
The religion of the short poem, in every age and in every literature, has a single commandment: Less is always more. The short poem rejects… — Charles Simic
Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!' ... I can but think that my… — Edmund Gosse
The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact… — Harold H. Greene
Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the… — Gavin Bryars
If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . . . The beauty and cogency… — Samuel Eliot Morison
Preaching Christianity to skeptics without first setting out the praeambula fidei [preambles of faith], and then complaining when they donâ€™t accept it, is like yelling… — Edward Feser
Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers… — W. Averell Harriman
The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established… — Gaston Bachelard
Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance. — Ursula K. Le Guin
You can't go on like you're going to start really living one day like all this is some preamble to some great life thats magically… — Perry Moore
For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the… — Alan Sillitoe

Who Wrote These Preamble Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 22 Preamble Quotes as follows: