#pre

All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#created #endless #generation #hooked #just

Ingratitude to God does not rely only on our refusal to give the verbal thanksgiving due to Him, but also recides in our inability to appreciate his gifts and potentials in us by leaving them untapped. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#appreciation #food-for-thought #gifts #god #grateful

I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress. ↗

— William Whipple

#chicanery #congress #deal #even #gentlemen

The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence. ↗

— Byron White

#complete #death #especially #finality #infecting

One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny. ↗

— Bryan White

#dress #funny #her #i #joke

The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed. ↗

— Byron White

#busy #choices #clause #constantly #courts

I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker. ↗

— Allen West

#level #military #pretty #spent #states

The great thing that I appreciate - the fact that my godfather, William "Sticky" Jackson, was a Tuskegee Airman because my father was first born in Ozark, Alabama. The sacrifices and the commitment of those men made it possible for myself and many others. ↗

— Allen West

#appreciate #because #born #commitment #fact

We need to put strong Democratic pressure on President Obama in the name of poor and working people. ↗

— Cornel West

#name #need #obama #people #poor

Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street. ↗

— Cornel West

#between #corporate #country #deal #every