#ow

Now the truth is, a president really can't control the economy, although his policies do have some effect on it. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#control #economy #effect #his #now

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country. ↗

— John Acton

#being #constitution #country #democracy #democratic

My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean? ↗

— Amy Adams

#anybody #blanks #come #else #fill

It's just that if you're not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not so much the good things but the bland things - the ordinary things - the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden. ↗

— Robert Adamson

#disruptive #down #endlessly #everything #get

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. ↗

— Renata Adler

#erases #experience #generation #history #own

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#being #does #good #good man #himself

Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful. ↗

— Giovanni Agnelli

#america #especially #europe #italy #thought

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap. ↗

— Spiro T. Agnew

#contemporary #gap #generation #generation gap #ignored

Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#brethren #came #come #desire #did

You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary. ↗

— Florence E. Allen

#fair #fair trial #had #high #high office