#con

Governing isn't as easy as you think. Many of you have taken pledges that are contradictory - to balance the budget and cut taxes, for example. You must be honest about the numbers, since our annual deficit now exceeds all discretionary spending combined. ↗

— Brian Baird

#annual #balance #budget #combined #contradictory

I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music. ↗

— Oksana Baiul

#different #different kinds #i #kinds #like

As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#came #common #conclusion #i #i came

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#beside #cabinet #come #convinced #even

I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#choose #conferences #could #delegates #essential

Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#carrying #convince #corps #i #may

The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#conference #diplomatic #direct #governments #hague

The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more effectively than has hitherto proved possible. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#conference #could #effectively #established #expressed

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#consider #contradict #granted #nor #read

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#constructions #hard #inferences #judges #laws