Quotes about la
law giving should
Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies. Mahatma Gandhi
laughter speech genuine
Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech Mahatma Gandhi
laughter blessed needs
Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After. James Thurber
laughter cutting needs
Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything. James Thurber
laughter men heartless
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal. James Thurber
laughter home laughing
We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the dozen other labels for the roll- em-in-the-aisles gagerissimo. This is the kind of laugh that delights actors, directors, and producers, but dismays writers of comedy because it is the laugh that often dies in the lobby. The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it. James Thurber
laughter character expression
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable. James Thurber
law planets subjects
The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other. James Smithson
land independence movement
My three-thousand mile walk through Ireland convinced me of one thing - the possibility of organising a proper movement for the independence of my native land. James Stephens
labor-day hardworking day-of-rest
Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans. James P. Hoffa
law land ignorant
The American capitalists are richer and stronger than their counterparts in other lands. They are also younger and more ignorant, and therefore more inclined to seek a rough settlement of difficulties without diplomatic subtlety and finesse. All that does not change the fact that American capitalism operates according to the same laws as the others, is confronted with the same fundamental problems, and is headed toward the same catastrophe. James P. Cannon
law people safety
The people's safety is the law of God. James Otis
lasts lists kind
Who, last time I'd checked, was still on our official archenemy list. (Yes, we have to keep a list. It's kind of sad.) James Patterson
lame threatening imaginative
We will destroy you,” the Flyboys droned. “You have no escape.” That was the most imaginative, threatening thing the whitecoats had programmed these ’droids to say? “Talk about lame,” Fang muttered. James Patterson
laughing max break
Max: "Fang! This is a huge break! Of course we should go check it out!" Fang: "But we're grounded." Max and Fang: (stare at each other for a second and burst out laughing) James Patterson
laughing waiting tubs
A vet! I started laughing weakly and had to sit on the edge of the tub. A vet. Wait till they found out how appropriate that was. James Patterson
land advantage nations
The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation. James Monroe
laughter war giving
During the darkest days of the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress and George Washington - I call him the first George W. - (laughter and applause) - urged citizens to pray and to give thanks and to ask for God's protection. James Monroe
laughing black majesty
What I'm really focused on is the majesty of the best films I see are films that don't panhandle for an extra laugh later, but actually deliver the goods. And when the screen goes black, you go, Yes. James Mangold
law giving unions
there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the authority of the state legislatures, without some constitutional mode of enforcing the observance of them? . . . This power must either be a direct negative on the state laws, or an authority in the federal courts, to over-rule such as might be in manifest contravention of the articles of union. James Madison
law bills firsts
Bills of attainder, ex-post facto laws and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation. James Madison
law class government
I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property. James Madison
law people federalism
Another advantage accruing from this ingredient in the constitution of a senate, is the additional impediment it must prove against improper acts of legislation. No law or resolution can now be passed without the concurrence first of a majority of the people, and then of a majority of the states. James Madison
law federalism unions
The public affairs of the union are spread throughout a very extensive region, and are extremely diversified by the local affairs connected with them, and can with difficulty be learnt in any other place, than in the central councils, to which a knowledge of them will be brought by the representatives of every part of the empire. Yet some knowledge of the affairs, and even of the laws of all the states, ought to be possessed by the members from each of the states. James Madison
law land constitution-of-the-united-states
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land. James Madison
law support religion
[Christianity] existed and flourishes, not only without the support of human laws, but in spite of every opposition from them. James Madison
land atheism hurtful
How a regulation so unjust in itself, so foreign to the authority of Congress, and so hurtful to the sale of public land, and smelling so strongly of an antiquated bigotry, could have received the countenance of a committee is truly a matter of astonishment. James Madison
land government house
To the Baptist Churches on Neal's Greek on Black Creek, North Carolina I have received, fellow-citizens, your address, approving my objection to the Bill containing a grant of public land to the Baptist Church at Salem Meeting House, Mississippi Territory. Having always regarded the practical distinction between Religion and Civil Government as essential to the purity of both, and as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, I could not have otherwise discharged my duty on the occasion which presented itself James Madison
law different watches
Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to those who watch the change and can trace its consequences; a harvest reared not by themselves but by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow citizens. This is a state of things in which it may be said with some truth that laws are made for the few not for the many. James Madison
law void congress
[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed. James Madison
law class america
If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the society? I answer, the genius of the whole system, the nature of just and constitutional laws, and above all the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America, a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in return is nourished by it. James Madison
law operations mass
They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society. James Madison
law america constitution
The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded. James Madison