#supreme

When the Chief Justice read me the oath,' he [FDR] later told an adviser, 'and came to the words "support the Constitution of the United States" I felt like saying: "Yes, but it's the Constitution as I understand it, flexible enough to meet any new problem of democracy--not the kind of Constitution your Court has raised up as a barrier to progress and democracy. ↗

— Susan Quinn

#democracy #flexibility #roosevelt #supreme-court #art

It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#achievement #among #asserted #commonly #english

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#breaking #conquer #consists #enemy #excellence

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#agreement #beautiful #coming #foundation #good

Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision. ↗

— John Doolittle

#comes #court #court decision #decision #elementary

We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#institutions #people #presuppose #religious #religious people

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

The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#computer #court #done #face #facts

At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#class #court #debt #debt limit #financial