#cons

It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette. ↗

— Betty Buckley

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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#carnival #constant #everything #left

Mail armor continued in general use till about the year 1300, when it was gradually supplanted by plate armor, or suits consisting of pieces or plates of solid iron, adapted to the different parts of the body. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#adapted #armor #body #consisting #continued

Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father. ↗

— Sitting Bull

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Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law. ↗

— Alan Bullock

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For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

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The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#faithfully #his #law #limits #national

We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

#field #into #judges #large #lured

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Congress must not do something just for the sake of doing something. We must carefully and thoughtfully consider the implications of any action and whether that action will help or hinder our ultimate mission of protecting U.S. citizens from terror. ↗

— Richard Burr

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