"If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion"

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Source : "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1995.

James Q. Wilson

#Rights Quotes #Support Quotes #Public Opinion Quotes

“Fear too often spells failure.”
“If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.”

Source : 'Discourses on Art' (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 2 (11 December 1769)
“That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People.”
“Love is a funny thing, isn't it? The presence of it can bring you to save a foe, the absence of it can make you hurt your own flesh.”
“Even grief recedes with time and grace. But our resolve must not pass. Each of us will remember what happened that day, and to whom it happened. We'll remember the moment the news came -- where we were and what we were doing. Some will remember an image of a fire, or a story of rescue. Some will carry memories of a face and a voice gone forever.”
“The parasite of art, the virus of art, never ceases to gnaw awat at your brain, never ceases to torture you with the knowledge that whatever you’re doing could be done more beautifully, more powerfully, more stirringly, more disturbingly, more deeply.”

Source : Brian Morton (2004). “A Window Across the River”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Law , the king of all mortals and immortals.”
“When you put your preferences on the altar of your life and say: THIS. THIS is what compels me. The real you emerges.”

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