Provision Quotes

• The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.

  Robert Bork

  Promise, Judicial Review, Constitution

  Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Change, Constitution Of The United States, Reason

  Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). “Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder”, p.37, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

  James Madison

  Freedom, Real, War

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.49, University of Virginia Press

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• I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.

  Linda McCartney

  Horse, Growing Up, Player

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• Education is the best provision for old age.

  Aristotle

  Graduation, Education, Teaching

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing

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• In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Intensity, Should, Torture

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2007). “SAT Words from Literature - the Scarlet Letter”, p.75, Prestwick House Inc

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• Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

  Voltaire

  Love, Self, Anorexia

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.73

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• On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.

  Jane Austen

  Children, Party, Way

  1811 Sense and Sensibility, vol.2, ch.6.

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• This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

  Voltaire

  Love Is, Self, Giving

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.73

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• The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Looks, Unions, Constitution

  Texas v. White (1869)

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• Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

  Karl Kraus

  Time, People, Democracy

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  1813 Pride and Prejudice, ch.22.

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• A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

  Samuel Johnson

  Civilization, History, Political

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1770)

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• We’re supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.

  Sharron Angle

  Government, Bread, Protection

  "Angle: 'What’s happening (in America)..is a violation of the 1st Commandment,' entitlements 'make government our God'". lasvegassun.com. August 4, 2010.

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• If the provisions of the Constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.

  George Sutherland

  Comfort, May, Constitution

  Home Building & Loan Association v. Blaisdell, 290 U.S. 398, (483), 1934.

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• Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

  Charles Wagner

  Humanity, Certain, Elementals

  Charles Wagner (2009). “The Simple Life”, p.28, The Floating Press

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• Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

  Jonathan Swift

  Literature, Poison, Beast

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems Not Hitherto Published; with Notes, and a Life of the Author”, p.251

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• NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Nature, Mind

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2467, Delphi Classics

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• The American people are going to judge the majority party here today. If they go out here and vote for this rule that allows this provision to be stricken, they are voting against the men and women in the military of our country.

  Norm Dicks

  Country, Military, Party

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• Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.

  Pete Stark

  Rights, Government, Abuse

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• Provision was also made for the distribution of Germany's foreign assets among the Allies.

  James F. Byrnes

  Allies, Germany, Assets

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• Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Time, Stupid, Journey

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• But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate.

  Jim McDermott

  Hurt, Thinking, Government

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• The privatization law draft was recently released and I believe that very soon we will start applying it, of course taking into consideration the provisions of United Nations Mission in Kosovo.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Believe, Law, Consideration

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• Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.

  Roger Wicker

  Rights, Libertarian, Facts

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