George Clymer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.

  • You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.

  • According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's an apt metaphor for our profession. But there's another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family. Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

  • Next to the virtue, the fun in this world is what we can least spare.

  • We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.

  • There is a kind of a cascading chain, ... If one can't sell, then that business doesn't buy and that means the next business doesn't sell, and the previous business doesn't sell, and so on.

  • The only way out of the current crisis is to amend the Constitution.

  • The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.

  • The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.

  • The substance of the constitution is preserved. That is a fact.

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