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Letter "C" » charter
«The press is like the air, a chartered libertine.»
Author: William Pitt the younger
(Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
charter, chartered, charters, libertine, Libertines
«The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Government,
People,
Power
| Keywords:
branches, Branches of, charter, chartered, charters, constitutional, derived, fountain, legitimate
«Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.»
Author: Nadine Gordimer
| About:
Progress
| Keywords:
charter, chartered, charters, The Gap, The Powers That Be, unwritten
«No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
| Keywords:
ballots, charter, chartered, charters, illiterate, primaries
«One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
| Keywords:
charter, chartered, charters, culture, joke, milder, mildest, People of, unexceptional
«The principles on which we engaged, of which the charter of our independence is the record, were sanctioned by the laws of our being, and we but obeyed them in pursuing undeviatingly the course they called for. It issued finally in that inestimable s»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
called for, charter, chartered, charters, inestimable, issued, pursuing, sanctioned
«I must have libertyWithal, as large a charter as the wind,To blow on whom I please.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
blow, charter, chartered, charters, withal
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