"That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns."

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Source : Finley Peter Dunne (1963). “Mr. Dooley on Ivryting and Ivrybody”, Dover Publications

Finley Peter Dunne

#Flags Quotes #Return Quotes #Constitution Quotes

“When we're born. . . All of us. . . Are free. People who reject that, no matter how strong they are. . . Don't matter.”
“Compare the emotional vocabulary available to a leader (confidence, satisfaction, indignation) with the emotions not permitted (regret, embarrassment, dread, angst, mortification, anger, surprise, wonder, doubt), and it becomes apparent why perfectly normal people, upon entering public life, transform into cartoons - because they are not free to express what a normal person would feel in their situation.”
“I saw people rise out of poverty right in front of me. ... It made me believe that the market was the most powerful tool for change that we could hope to have.”
“Surrender happens by Grace. All we're doing is cleaning up the room so when Surrender walks in, He can sit down.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 25, 2013
“I had a great childhood.”
“Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin boreal forest in northern Alberta and Ontario are being clear-cut to make the stuff. These forests are home to some 500 First Nation communities, as well as caribou and bears, moose and wolves, and, in the summertime, billions of songbirds.”
“The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims.”
“A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.”

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