Checks Quotes - Page 9

• The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpation of power by rulers. The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of the republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally ... enable the people to resist and triumph over them.

  Joseph Story

  Country, Strong, People

  Joseph Story (1833). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.746

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• The biggest lie about grace that Satan wants the church to buy is the idea that it’s dangerous and therefore needs to be kept in check.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Lying, Ideas, Grace

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• Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that...the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.

  Andrew Jackson

  Hands, Over You, Corporations

  Andrew Jackson (2009). “Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren”, p.1525, Wildside Press LLC

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• A lot of people think if you just had more process and more compliance -- checks and doublechecks and so forth -- you could create a better result in the world. Well, Berkshire has had practically no process. We had hardly any internal auditing until they forced it on us. We just try to operate in a seamless web of deserved trust and be careful whom we trust.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• I check my pulse and if I can find it, I know I've got a chance

  Paul Newman

  Pulse, Chance, Knows

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• I gut check my show. I say, I say, "Gut, gut, does that feel true to you?" And Gut says, "Yes it does, Stephen. Let's get a grilled cheese sandwich."

  Stephen Colbert

  Cheese Sandwiches, Doe, Grilled Cheese

  "Stephen Colbert tells Jake Tapper: "I Gut Check My Show". "The Colbert Report" with Stephen Colbert, www.poynter.org. April 15, 2010.

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• We hold our tongues in check because if they are undisciplined they empty the soul of the strength of heavenly grace, and weaken its healthful vigour.

  Peter Damian

  Attachment, Grace, Soul

  Peter Damian (2013). “Spiritual Precepts”, p.53, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The Scoutmaster must be alert to check badge hunting as compared to badge earning.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Hunting, Earning

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• I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check myself, because part of me is seen as Eric Camden. We all need as much help as we can get. It's a role model to me as much as to anybody else.

  Stephen Collins

  Airports, Role Models, Might

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• Always check your inner state
  with the lord of your HEART.

  Rumi

  Heart, Lord, States

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• We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body

  Thomas Jefferson

  Dog, War, Example

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.91, Algora Publishing

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• Get punctual, bring energy and creativity to your work, and stay with a project until it's completed (and then double-check the results). These habits will make you indispensable.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Creativity, Energy, Habit

  Bill O'Reilly (2002). “The O'Reilly Factor: The Good, the Bad, and the Completely Ridiculous in American Life”, p.77, Three Rivers Press

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• When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Hands, Invisible Hand, Environment

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• There's so many people to see. So many people to check up on and add to your collection.

  Elvis Costello

  People, Add, Collections

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• If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object; but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path he thinks most direct, we become an easy conquest to those who can now barely hold us in check.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Moving, Thinking, Squad

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• America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  America, People, I Have A Dream Speech

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• My life is a blank check before God... No strings attached.

  David Platt

  Strings Attached, Life Is, Blank

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• One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every light bulb and ordered up a bunch of stinky cheese and put it under the mattress.

  Richard Marx

  Light, Cheesy, Rooms

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• It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.

  Tupac Shakur

  Men, Ego, World

  Ed Gordon interview, 1994.

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• Your true friends dont shy away from keeping you in check because your wellbeing is more important to them than even your friendship and they'd rather risk offending you than watch you harm yourself.

  Omar Suleiman

  True Friend, Offending, Risk

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Jan 28, 2013

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• Never check your religion at the door. Not ever.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Doors

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• ...unless the grace of God comes to the help of our frailty, to protect and defend it, no man can withstand the insidious onslaughts of the enemy nor can he damp down or hold in check the fevers which burn in our flesh with nature's fire.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Men, Fire

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• Recently the country has seen too much of our legislators, seeing them as a gaggle of check-kiting, judge-smearing deadbeats who don't pay their restaurant bills but raise their pay in the middle of the night. Many Americans-this columnist included-hitherto said tax increases are justified by the budget deficit now say: Give that mob more money? Never. Not a nickel of new taxes until term limits change the political culture on Capital Hill.

  George Will

  Country, Money, Night

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• You never work for somebody else. Someone else might sign your check, but you're the one who fills in the amount.

  Zig Ziglar

  Might, Amount

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• We never cry out to God and receive a returned check stamped 'Insufficient grace.'

  Sandy Smith

  Grace, Cry, Insufficient

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