Concessions Quote by Henry Clay Download Open image “All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.” — Henry Clay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Concessions Legislation Mutual Principles
From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species. — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
The rule of law is the most basic principle on which our Constitution is based. — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
“Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
Political parties serve to keep each other in check, one keenly watching the other. — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to its operation during a single year,… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they arouse… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
Precedents deliberately established by wise men are entitled to great weight. They are evidence of truth, but only evidence...But a solitary precedent...which has never… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind …. — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity. — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
Honor and good faith and justice are equally due from this country toward the weak as toward the strong. — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
The measure of the wealth of a nation is indicated by the measure of its protection of its industry; the measure of the poverty… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
It is not a process of bargaining or give-and-take. The peace process is not about giving concessions. We will not allow any step which… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the country, may… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
If we are to reach a situation of true peace, real peace, peace for generations, we will have to make painful concessions. Not in… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Constitution itself, plainly written as it is, the safeguard of our federative compact, the offspring of concession and compromise, binding together in the… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
When dealing with Canadians, it is advantageous to seem to be negotiating from a position of weakness, for when faced with an abject opponent,… — 1st Baron St Helens Alleyne FitzHerbert Copy Share Image
I believe that I am more conservative than George W. Bush. However, it is important to note that he has had to govern, which… — Jeff Gannon Copy Share Image
Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857, 1869, 1873,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
![“[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could, and still things get worse in Tibet." If you look at it from one point of view, as he himself says, his monastic position of forbearance and nonviolence hasn't reaped any…” quote by Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9fe/pico-iyer-1252_benefits_the-dalai-lama-told-me-some-years-ago-i_678.jpg)
