#charter

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#ballots #charters #democracy #direct #illiterate

I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#assembling #charter #conducted #evening #habit

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#charter #human #i #indebted #rights

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. ↗

— George Eliot

#breath #charter #conscience #contest #dogma

Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you're an educational innovator, that isn't where the greatest need is. ↗

— John Engler

#best #charter #charter schools #created #districts

As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed. ↗

— Helen Clark

#beginning #charter #drafting #followed #lot

You have to understand that once an indictment has been signed, all countries that are signature to the U.N. charter will hand a person straight over. You don't have to go through the normal extradition process. ↗

— Tony Greig

#charter #countries #go #hand #indictment

That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed. ↗

— Mitch Kapor

#chartered #government #nonprofit #purposes #receives

The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so. ↗

— Paul Martin

#celebrate #ceremonies #charter #couples #court

We have a law that allows us to establish charter schools here in this state. We ought to get going on it. ↗

— Craig Benson

#charter #charter schools #establish #get #going