Preside Quotes
40 quotes by 32 authors
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And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White…
— Barbara Bush
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I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our organs to those…
— Francois Magendie
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The choice is ours-yours and mine. We can stay with business as usual and preside over a global bubble economy that keeps expanding until it…
— Lester R. Brown
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This power ought to be coextensive with all the possible combinations of such circumstances; and ought to be under the direction of the same councils…
— Alexander Hamilton
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In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one,…
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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There was a time when we were told . . . that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct of the respective…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.
— Edward Abbey
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I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you and the State over which you preside in His holy protection ... that…
— George Washington
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If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention where I had the honor to preside might possibly endanger…
— George Washington
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If the IMF is correct (a big if), China will be the planet's No.1 economy by 2016. That means whoever's elected in November next year…
— Mark Steyn
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The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape…
— J. G. Ballard
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The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity.
— George Washington
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A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have little doubt that…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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Parliamentary democracy is, in truth, little more than a means of securing a periodical change in the management team, which is then allowed to preside…
— Tony Benn
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Leaders, your God-given job is not merely to preside over something, not to pontificate to your underlings how smart you are, not merely to preserve…
— Bill Hybels
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Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being…
— Eliza Farnham
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It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate…
— William O. Douglas
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Since man, fragment of the universe, is governed by the same laws that preside over the heavens, it is by no means absurd to search…
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.
— Jane Byrne
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PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, "He presided…
— Ambrose Bierce
Who Wrote These Preside Quotes
32 authors contributed a total of 40 Preside Quotes, led by these top contributors: