Establishment Quotes - Page 4

• Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.

  William H. Seward

  Ocean, Virginia, United States

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• The establishment of a law, moreover, does not take place when the first thought of it takes form, or even when its significance is recognised, but only when it has been confirmed by the results of the experiment.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Law, Doe, Firsts

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• Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'

  Terry Pratchett

  Educational, Thinking, Mules

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• The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Government, Community, Political

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• A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.

  David Talbot

  Change, Political, Frustrated

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• I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Reality, Uprising, Trying

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• As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.

  Peter Wright

  Romantic, Kids, Math

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• I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.

  Emanuel Celler

  Rights, Monopoly Power, Growth

  Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

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• Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Interne is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with an information age.

  Pete du Pont

  Running, Media, Age

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• We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Israel, Threat, Treachery

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• We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces.

  John Negroponte

  Motivation, Military, Fighting

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• It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life

  Franz Boas

  Events, Tasks, Differentiation

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• At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different universe.

  John M. Ford

  Writing, Different Universes, Next

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• The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season.

  Martin Van Buren

  Military, Army, Past

  Martin Van Buren (2018). “State of the Union Addresses of Martin van Buren”, p.40, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Art, Profit, Britain

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• Senator McGovern is very sincere when he says that he will try to cut the military budget by 30%. And this is to drive a knife in the heart of Israel... Jews don't like big military budgets. But it is now an interest of the Jews to have a large and powerful military establishment in the United States... American Jews who care about the survival of the state of Israel have to say, no, we don't want to cut the military budget, it is important to keep that military budget big, so that we can defend Israel.

  Irving Kristol

  Powerful, Military, Heart

  "Congress Bi-Weekly". Book published by the American Jewish Congress, 1973.

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• In the national security establishment, it is somewhat frowned upon for people to take extremely harsh partisan roles in campaigns.

  John Heilemann

  People, Campaigns, Roles

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The problem we are faced with is that the meteorological establishment and the global warming lobby research bodies which receive large funding are now apparently so corrupted by the largesse they receive that the scientists in them have sold their integrity.

  Piers Corbyn

  Integrity, Research, Body

  Weather Action Bulletin, December 2000.

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• The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege, but the abuse of it in this country is a frightful evil. The licentiousness of the press is a deep stain upon the character of the country; and in addition to the evil of calumniating good men and giving a wrong direction to public measures, it corrupts the people by rendering them insensible to the value of truth and of reputation.

  Noah Webster

  Christian, Country, Character

  "Letters".

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• I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.

  Peter De Vries

  Inspirational, Country, Teenager

  Peter De Vries (1967). “The vale of laughter”

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• Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response.

  William O. Douglas

  Government, May, Violence

  "Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations", ("Points of Rebellion"), pp. 88-89, 1989.

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• Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of moral life and social virtue.

  Andrew Jackson

  Principles, Moral, Masonic

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• But the greatest obstacle of all to the successful prosecution of a new branch of industry in a country, in which it was before unknown, consists . . . in the bounties, premiums, and other aids which are granted, in a variety of cases, by the nations, in which the establishments to be imitated are previously introduced.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Country, Successful, Branches

  United States. Department of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1828). “Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Prepared in Obedience to the Act of the 10th May, 1800: ... to which are Prefixed, the Reports of Alexander Hamilton, on Public Credit, on a National Bank, on Manufactures, and on the Establishment of a Mint ... Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States”, p.93

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• Manufacturing establishments not only occasion a positive augmentation of the produce and revenue of the society . . . they contribute essentially to rendering them greater than they could possibly be, without such establishments. These circumstances are . . . greater scope for the diversity of talents and dispositions which discriminate men from each other.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Diversity, Talent

  United States. Department of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1791). “Report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, on the Subject of Manufactures: Presented to the House of Representatives, December 5, 1791”, p.8

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• College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product comes within tight control limits out of the assembly line.

  Bill Gaede

  College, Cookies, Machines

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