#pen

The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#between #branches #clauses #constitution #difference

The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#cause #conscience #depend #enforcement #justice

I guess I harboured hopes that things would happen more quickly, but I'm not disappointed. ↗

— Jerry Greenfield

#guess #happen #hopes #i #more

More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy. ↗

— Jeff Greenfield

#conspiracy #exhaustion #happen #more #politics

In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#bring #christian #christian religion #conviction #discovery

With Dollars And Cents on the album, we had it as a band jam and I sometimes spend evenings playing with records over the top of things we were working on to see what works. ↗

— Colin Greenwood

#band #cents #dollars #evenings #had

Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#cuts #day #disastrous #end #end of the day

I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and I just had a feeling that wasn't going to happen. You know, I just kind of read the writing on the wall. ↗

— Bruce Greenwood

#another #basic #doing #feeling #film

Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want. ↗

— Bruce Greenwood

#happen #just #know #over #really

I'm pretty much an open book. ↗

— Lee Greenwood

#i #much #open #open book #pretty