#petition

I believe in competition. ↗

— Craig Benson

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As a Republican, I am all for competition. ↗

— Michael Burgess

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Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

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Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

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It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

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Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt. ↗

— Marton Csokas

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It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

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The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

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The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

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Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

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