Elbridge Gerry Quotes
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
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I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.
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There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.
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I cannot emphasize just how dangerous it is cycling in the city. Especially now. Even though it is against the law to do this, you'll see people texting while they drive.
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At the risk of sounding really corny now, I'm a career prosecutor. I've been doing this for a very long time. And I believe in holding people responsible when they violate the law. But our sole responsibility is to seek justice. And sometimes that means a very lengthy sentence for people who are dangerous and from which society must be protected.
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I worked my way up in the private sector and implemented Georgia's tough voter ID law.
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Regulatory failings mean that the cost of breaking the law is far below that of obeying it - businesses are happier to pay fines than to control pollution.
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Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.
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We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.
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So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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Societies cannot move forward without law, and our constitution is the cornerstone of the law and our National Assembly is its umbrella and fortress.
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The greatest problem for the human race, to the solution of which Nature drives man, is the achievement of a universal civic society which administers law among men.
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I do take law very seriously, deeply seriously, because fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling.
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The law of gravity thus asserts itself when a house falls about our ears.
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Without unleashing the power of life-destroying missiles or forcing obedience to a particular law, rainbows dissolve preoccupation with the predictably ordinary and encourage belief in the extra-ordinary. Such belief, such inspiration, provides much more than passive hopefulness.
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Every outer purpose is doomed to 'fail' sooner or later, simply because it is subject to the law of impermanence of all things.
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Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life.
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Gentleman, I am a republican, a radical republican, a Black republican, a republican dyed in the wool, and for one I want the republican party to live as long as I do… It is the party of law and order, of liberty and progress, of honor and honesty, as against disloyalty, moral stagnation, dishonest voting, and repudiation.
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Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.
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The world, universe, God, whatever you call it, has so much more in store if you just sit back and relax and do what's right in front of you.
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I forgot he [Barack Obama] was black tonight for an hour.
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No religious doctrine shall be established by law.
