"Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia……" — William H. Seward

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This quote is filed under Ceded Quotes, one of 13 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• The press has let the country down. It's taken a very amoral stand, in that essential issues are often portrayed… — Bruce Springsteen
• And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore… — John Thorn
• By focusing on such a narrow slice of Nepali life, Ms. Spray and Mr. Velez have ceded any totalizing claim… — Manohla Dargis
• The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved,… — Lord Acton
• It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual… — Ann Druyan
• The Constitution is not a law, but it empowers the people to make laws... The Constitution tells us what shall… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
• A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's… — Neil Abercrombie
• And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books… — Diane Setterfield
• After four centuries of Spanish rule, Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States in 1898. Residents were granted U.S.… — Pedro Pierluisi
• Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom… — Neil Abercrombie
• Experience has ceded to a series of happenings, about which the most we can expect is information. — Thomas Harrison

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