William O. Douglas Quotes
The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.William O. Douglas
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I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States.
Dana Rohrabacher -
I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
Barry Hannah -
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln -
Silence is also conversation.
Ramana Maharshi -
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
Edith Sitwell -
Silence is my dignity.
Hansika Motwani
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A man is known by the silence he keeps.
Oliver Herford -
Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.
Hank Johnson -
Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.
Barton Gellman -
Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.
Owen Paterson -
I think, if you create the right economic framework in terms of government policy, that Saskatchewan can continue to succeed and grow. Instead of having people migrate from Saskatchewan, they will be migrating to Saskatchewan.
N. Murray Edwards
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Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.
Gavin Newsom -
We are a constitutional monarchy. I don't order laws, I propose them. Article 35 of our constitution states that the king can only refuse a law of parliament once, then he has to sign it - if the same law is then supported by a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa -
Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator?
Gary Johnson -
I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
Lajos Kossuth -
A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.
Ferdinand Mount -
Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary, the government has an equal stake. Since both of us have stakes in the appointment of members of the higher judiciary, the consultation of both of them is absolutely necessary. The government must have a say.
Kapil Sibal
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Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
G. Edward Griffin -
It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they have bled. It must be the combined virtue of the rulers and of the people to do this, and to rescue and save their civil and religious rights from the outstretched arm of tyranny, which may appear under any mode or form of government.
Mercy Otis Warren -
I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.
Patricia Marx -
I know that some of the spiritual beliefs that I have are that if I come from a place of love, and I try to get out of my ego and my desire to want more and be selfish in any shape or form, then whatever I'm doing is not good.
Amber Valletta -
The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.
William O. Douglas