Proper Quotes

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That the people have a Right to mass and to bear arms; that a well regulated militia composed of the Body of the people, trained… — George Mason
For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. — Clifton Fadiman
Let heaven fill your thoughts instead. Because when you do, everything on earth gets placed in its proper perspective. — Greg Laurie
The conservation of nature, the proper care for the human environment and a general concern for the long-term future of the whole of our planet… — Prince Philip
Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer… — William Irwin Thompson
The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations with a planetary… — David Korten
There is no domestic issue more important to America in the long run than the conservation and proper use of our natural resources, including fresh… — Gaylord Nelson
To create a world in which life can flourish and prosper we must replace the values and institutions of capitalism with values and institutions that… — David Korten
But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive in any… — Ayn Rand
Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach humanity our proper relation to the environment where we must live. — Clarence Darrow
The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers to disseminate early… — Thomas Jefferson
Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies… — Alexander Hamilton
[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress; But it is… — Joseph Story
The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same state, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a similar nature, all… — Alexander Hamilton
It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should . . . be remoulded into such a shape as will bring the expenditure of… — Alexander Hamilton
It has been said that all Government is an evil. It would be more proper to say that the necessity of any Government is a… — James Madison
If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when… — Alexander Hamilton
[W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government. — Alexander Hamilton
It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve. — Edgar Allan Poe
Listen close and you can hear, Please, bless us and forgive us, and make us good here and strong here. Let us get along here.… — Janet Morris

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