Acres Quote by Earl Warren Download Open image “Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.” — Earl Warren ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acres Legislature People Tree Trees
Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
“Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. As long as ours is… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Our legislatures are not built to allow working people to participate as members. Neither, for that matter, is our political system writ large. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
The legislatures will have better means of information. They can discover the danger at a distance; and possessing all the organs of civil power,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The most numerous objects of legislation belong to the States. Those of the National Legislature [are] but few. — Rufus King Copy Share Image
Unlike the United States Congress, which mostly forbids outside employment, state legislatures are generally composed of people with other careers. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
The Constitution is clear; appropriations powers sit with the legislature. — Dean Phillips Copy Share Image
Members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
For the same reason that the members of the State legislatures will be unlikely to attach themselves sufficiently to national objects, the members of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Washington would be much better off if it looked more like a state legislature. — Kathy Szeliga Copy Share Image
When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes. — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
When an individual is taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom by the authorities in any significant way and is subjected to… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice. — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional.....All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle. — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today. — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism. — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
It were good to know how much hay an acre of every sort will bear; how many cattle the same weight of each sort… — William Petty Copy Share Image
In the 24 hours since this time yesterday, over 200,000 acres of rainforest have been destroyed in our world. Fully 13 million tons of… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
About five years ago, the courses we run in the Field Trials were 52 percent timber. The hawks live in trees, and the quail… — Rick Carlisle Copy Share Image
[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more in length… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Our problem with limited resources is not primarily overpopulation; it is greed. Our problem with pollution is not the invention of fluorocarbons or mass… — Winkie Pratney Copy Share Image
Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image