#takings

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude. ↗

— Ovid

#confidence #magnitude #people #slow #undertakings

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#great #requisite #self-confidence #undertakings

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#cherish #clause #conservatives #equal #equal protection

The "takings" clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#clause #conservatives #equal #equal protection #fifth

The case decided on Thursday, though, seemed promising to takings fans because it wasn't about compensation. It was about the requirement that any government taking must have a "public purpose." ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#any #because #case #compensation #decided

Is Abundant Success in all his honest undertakings. ↗

— George Morgan

#his #honest #success #undertakings

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#faith #fatal #immediately #instrument #interests

Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides. ↗

— Euripides

#better #better chance #both #both sides #chance

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#failure #forms #lands #new #often

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#endings #human #undertakings