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Letter "L" » legislature
«I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of Massachusetts the condition of the miserable, the desolate, the outcast. I come as the advocate of helpless, forgotten, insane men and women; of beings sunk to a condition from which the unconcerned world would start with real horror.»
Author: Dorothea Dix
(Philanthropist)
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advocate, claims, desolate, desolated, desolating, helpless, horror, legislature, Legislatures, outcast, sunk, The Advocate, unconcerned
«As they say around the [Texas] Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.»
«If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to set the judicial power above that of the legislature, which would be subversive of all government.»
Author: William Blackstone
(Jurist)
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at liberty, enact, enacted, enacting, Judges, legislature, positively, reject, subversive
«Learn to live in this world with self-respect. You should always cherish some ambition of doing something in this world. But remember that the age of selflessness has ended. A new epoch is set in. All things are now possible because of your being able to participate in the politics and legislature of your country.»
Author: B. R. Ambedkar
(Politician)
| Keywords:
ended, legislature, selflessness, set in, The Politics
«All (zoos) actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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amusement, ennobling, informing, legislature, penitentiary, session, stimulating, tax form, tax return, witless, zoos
«Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.»
Author: Kin Hubbard
(Humorist, Writer)
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innocent, legislature, Legislatures, now and then, sent
«Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.»
«I served with General Washington in the Legislature of Virginia... and... with Dr. Franklin in Congress. I never heard either of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
at a time, congress, Dr., Dr, franklin, legislature, Legislatures, main, point in time, served, Virginia, Washington
«I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation b»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
declared, establishment, Establishment of religion, legislature, prohibit, respecting, sovereign
«I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer.»
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