#supreme

The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention. ↗

— Mark Edwards

#bloodless #bush #coup #court #even

In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#case #communities #community #court #individual

When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, Sarah Palin tweeted, 'Obama lies; freedom dies.' She's referring, I guess, to the freedom to go without health care when you're sick. ↗

— Richard Trumka

#affordable #care #court #dies #freedom

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#people #power #same #supreme #supreme power

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#desire #female #friendship #happiness #her

For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation. ↗

— David Horowitz

#been #beginning #constitutional #court #court decision

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#happiness #life #loved #ourselves #rather

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#creator #enslaved #meter #our #poetry

Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we meet in the Bible was, for centuries, regarded simply as a symbol of a greater transcendence that lay beyond it. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#better #beyond #bible #bigger #centuries

France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#france #great #none #supreme