#cons

Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#extraordinary #going #great #heads #i

Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith? ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#constitutional #countrymen #faith #henry #jefferson

Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#considerable #country #day #debate #early

You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#awakened #constitution #conventions #debates #know

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow. ↗

— Jessica Cutler

#becomes #characters #constantly #doing #follow

I've got money so I'm a Conservative. ↗

— Lord Thomson of Fleet

#got #i #money

Well I've already made it clear that it's a matter for individuals in exercising their own judgement, their own consciences to speak freely on matters of policy. ↗

— Ron Davies

#clear #consciences #exercising #freely #i

Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#apparently #being #between #broad #changed

Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things. ↗

— Ray Davies

#consisted #country #our #repertoire #rhythm

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#changed #consolation #crutch #evidence #harm