#compact

I have the most lovely, healthy bouncing baby, she was all very compact and the right size. ↗

Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#altered #best #compact #confederation #consideration

Social Security is something that we need to deal with, because people who are working today, who will retire in the future, people who are retired today, they have a right - and it's part of the compact that they can depend on their benefits. We should fix the long-term funding problem of Social Security because that's the right thing to do. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#benefits #compact #deal #depend #fix

Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community. ↗

— George Mason

#civil #community #compact #every #general

It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine. ↗

— Susannah McCorkle

#american #articles #compact #contributions #discs

The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#compact #first #fundamental #government #larger

Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient. ↗

— Barney Oliver

#energy #inefficient #method #source #storing

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#fair #made #poverty #rich #who

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed. ↗

— Epicurus

#harm #harmed #justice #kind

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. ↗