Baldwin Spencer famous quotes

It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.
-- Baldwin Spencer

#Law #Hemisphere #World

There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.
-- Baldwin Spencer

#Boots #There Comes A Time #Rhetoric

Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
-- Baldwin Spencer

#Blow #Years #Two

We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.
-- Baldwin Spencer

#Circumstances #Evolve

5 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.
-- Baldwin Spencer

#Curves #Numbers #Promise

The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.

Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law.

The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.

Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.

After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.

The hurricanes are following the tropical ocean temperature. The tropical ocean temperature is following the Northern Hemisphere. And it's very hard now to believe that there's anything natural about that.

The main theme to emerge... is that there appear to be two modes of thinking, verbal and nonverbal, represented rather separately in left and right hemispheres respectively and that our education system, as well as science in general, tends to neglect the nonverbal form of intellect. What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.