Provisions Quotes

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Every time we sign a treaty with another country, the treaty (should) include prisoner transfer provisions.... Under these provisions, the country in which the crimes… — Kathleen Brown
We have consistently supported a legalization program which is both generous to the alien and fair to the countless thousands of people throughout the world… — Ronald Reagan
I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight. — Mark Twain
If we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and the special legislation like huge inverted pyramids over every one… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year… — Abraham Lincoln
When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor… — Abraham Lincoln
... if the society toward which we are developing is not to be a nightmare of exhaustion, we must use the interlude of the present… — Kenneth E. Boulding
No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during any of the… — Roger Brooke Taney
If those states which did not have right-to-carry concealed gun provisions had adopted them in 1992, approximately 1,570 murders; 4,177 rapes; and over 60,000 aggravate… — John R. Lott Jr.
I am astonished about those people who are ordered to prepare their provisions, then the start of the journey is announced, however they remain unmindful… — Hasan of Basra
The provisions we have made [for our government] are such as please ourselves; they answer the substantial purposes of government and of justice, and other… — Thomas Jefferson
The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the… — Martin Van Buren
To answer the purpose of the adversaries of the Constitution, they ought to prove, not merely that particular provisions in it are not the best,… — Alexander Hamilton
Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some… — Abraham Lincoln
In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and… — James Madison
The truth is that the general genius of a government is all that can be substantially relied upon for permanent effects. Particular provisions, though not… — Alexander Hamilton
[I]n framing a Government for a nation we ought, in those provisions which are designed to be permanent, to calculate not on temporary, but on… — Alexander Hamilton
If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers, and that the construction they put upon them… — Alexander Hamilton

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