#cons

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional. ↗

— Antonin Scalia

#constitutional #economic #folly #law

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility. ↗

— Antonin Scalia

#adopt #again #bring #citizens #constitution

The Republican Party needs to reform or die. President Bush did three things. He destroyed the Republican majority, he crippled the American conservative movement and he weakened the country. ↗

— Joe Scarborough

#bush #conservative #conservative movement #country #crippled

For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition. ↗

— Joe Scarborough

#barack #barack obama #bill #bill clinton #bush

And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers is considerably larger than the number of producers, a fact which exercises a not inconsiderable social and political pressure. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#connected #considerably #consumers #establishes #exercises

It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#classical #consumer #contrast #economic #economic life

Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#burning #conquered #conscience #dictates #inflicted

Since our economy is closely allied with that of foreign countries, not one of us can be indifferent to what consequences these disturbances can have at home and abroad. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#allied #closely #consequences #countries #disturbances

Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting. ↗

— Francis Schaeffer

#communicating #considering #each #generation #gospel

Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while. ↗

— Wally Schirra

#considers #demeaning #down #each #herself