#mer

A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person. ↗

— Potter Stewart

#cause #criminal #does #give #independently

I like Mitch Daniels on the fiscal conservative issues. You disagree with him on this idea that social issues, you takeoff the table. I do that for two reasons. I think the fiscal issues in a sense are a symptom of a lot of the deeper cultural issues in America. I don't think they are as disconnected as he thinks. ↗

— Mark Steyn

#conservative #cultural #cultural issues #daniels #deeper

The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America. ↗

— Mark Steyn

#care #essence #everything #government #health

All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#been #civil #except #forms #mankind

The first rule to living in America is 'Stop tap dancing, you fool!'. ↗

— Ryan Stiles

#dancing #first #fool #living #rule

I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets. ↗

— Sting

#american football #crash #football #helmets #i

A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#american #american indians #asia #certain #collected

Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#indians #numerous #regions #tropical

The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#carolina #constant #continent #indeed #indies

The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#all nations #american #hath #high #his