"The father of confederation is deadlock." — Goldwin Smith
"The father of confederation is deadlock."
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Goldwin Smith
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32 Quotes by Goldwin Smith
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Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.
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We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other…
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The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.
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Above all nations is humanity,
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Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into…
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Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.
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There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and…
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Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly…
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The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to…
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The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual…
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No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist…
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As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was…
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More Confederation Quotes
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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want…
— John Adams
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The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an…
— John Dickinson
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As in forming a political society, each individual contributes some of his rights, in order that he may, from a…
— John Dickinson
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Jealousy, and local policy mix too much in all our public councils for the good government of the Union. In…
— George Washington
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[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the…
— George Washington
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I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind.…
— H.G. Wells
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I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so…
— William Whipple
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To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be…
— Kim Campbell
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There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the…
— Julie Powell
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Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade unions of all the…
— Richard Rorty
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When the Canadian confederation took place in 1867, a lot of people in Quebec said, 'Could we have a referendum?'…
— Jacques Parizeau
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Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have…
— Jefferson Davis
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