#propose

It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves. ↗

— Giambattista Vico

#contrary #diverse #doubt #ends #had

In inquiring concerning the benefits of the plan proposed, I shall proceed upon the supposition that female seminaries will be patronized throughout our country. ↗

— Emma Willard

#concerning #country #female #i #inquiring

A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. Bourke in his great speech last week welcoming the Belgian mission to Boston worked out the President's meaning with care. ↗

— Shane Leslie

#belgian #body #boston #care #considerable

Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary. ↗

— Ben Nelson

#amendment #basis #clear #constitution #convincing

Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies? ↗

— Chester W. Nimitz

#failure #likely #material #might #operation

I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, if civil disobedience is the way to go about change, then I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco. ↗

— Rosie O'Donnell

#amendment #change #civil #civil disobedience #disobedience

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#dispose #disposes #dumping #government #must

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#arrangement #business #called #derive #friendship

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#dispose #duty #president #privilege #propose

If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#am #another #because #could #first