#visions

Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. ↗

— James Madison

#against #charged #danger #home #liberty

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#beginning #begins #bells #century #divisions

It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions. ↗

— Ed McMahon

#around #build #community #downtown #hard

Each State has its own health insurance mandates, and some of them are good, but there are about 1,800 of them all across the Nation, including provisions for acupuncturists, massage therapists, and hair replacements. ↗

— Timothy Murphy

#across #each #good #hair #health

Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#apart #complete #enemy #fall #grandeur

Everyone wants to talk about it, and right now music, flat-panel televisions, a whole host of new handheld devices are fun to talk about and very exciting to look at. ↗

— Kevin Rollins

#devices #everyone #exciting #fun #handheld

The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States. ↗

— Salmon Portland Chase

#disposed #indestructible #looks #provisions #states

I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#declare #drawn #driven #either #forms

If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned. ↗

— George Sutherland

#comfort #constitution #may #pinch #provisions

I have like fifteen televisions in my house. ↗

— Jimmy Kimmel

#house #i #like #televisions