"The only constitutional exception to the power of making treaties is, that it shall not change the Constitution.â€¦ On natural principles, a treaty, which should manifestly betray or sacrifice primary interests of the state, would be null."

-- Alexander Hamilton

#Sacrifice Quotes #Principles Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.”

Source : "Der Bauhaus". Film on TV-Rechte, Germany, 1975.
“Books didn't make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.”
“No such word as can't. No such word as babagoozle neither!”
“A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while a man well informed but indiscreet and unreserved will not uncommonly talk himself out of all consideration and weight. (Alexander Hamilton's 'thesis on discretion' written to his son James shortly before his fatal duel with Burr.)”
“Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don't turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it's all going to end. I made Cop III because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert's thumb up my ass.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm a record collector. I've got over 2000 records. It's so nice for me to have records that are me. That's me on there.”

Source : "The End of the Erase Errata Era". pitchfork.com. October 16, 2015.
“I started going gray in my early twenties.”
“I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life.”

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