Representatives Quotes
204 quotes by 180 authors
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The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
— Irving Babbitt
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I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin…
— John Adams
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At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to…
— Earl Blumenauer
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While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate…
— John O. Brennan
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I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.
— George H. W. Bush
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Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making of water into…
— Karlheinz Deschner
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Give me the steady, uniform, unshaken security of constitutional freedom. Give me the right to be tried by a jury of my own neighbors, and…
— Alexander Hamilton
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We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.
— Deborah Tannen
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The representatives of business interests are the men to start this enterprise among our people and bring them to a full realization of the very…
— John J. Pershing
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I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to…
— Andrew Jackson
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Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.
— Daniel Ellsberg
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As for the Jews, I am just carrying on with the same policy which the Catholic Church has adopted for fifteen hundred years, when it…
— Adolf Hitler
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When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an odd-shaped flint-there are…
— Mary Midgley
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The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a…
— Thomas Paine
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Representatives of the American intelligence agencies - and I hope they won't be angry - but they could have been more professional, and the diplomats…
— Vladimir Putin
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Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.
— Jacques Delors
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Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote for representatives for…
— Thomas Jefferson
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What is surprising is that their ideological opponents, the Marxists - the anti-liberals, the representatives of the oppressed working classes - believed in progress with…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws operate. It is the scientist's…
— Edward Teller
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