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What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly. -- Jonathan Swift
No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires. -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision. -- Abraham Lincoln
The working out of a balanced economy throughout Germany to provide the necessary means to pay for approved imports has not been accomplished, although that too is expressly required by the Potsdam Agreement. -- James F. Byrnes
True, the apostles did not expressly say that people will be saved only if they repent, believe, and confess. But most evangelicals assume - with good reason - that this is what the apostles implied. -- Lewis B. Smedes
From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Even before the founding fathers dreamed up the First Amendment, they inserted a provision in the Constitution expressly prohibiting any religious test for office. -- Noah Feldman
No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos; and, indeed, representatives of large sections of Indian opinion have expressly warned us that we must not do so. -- Stafford Cripps
I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the fact that you are encouraged to buy a gun, but if you use it for the purpose that it is expressly designed for, you get the death penalty. That aspect of America is kind of mystifying. -- Nick Cave
Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine. -- Jacques Ellul
The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids. -- Aristotle
And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.' -- Clement of Alexandria
... protection of life is NOT a legitimate use for a firearm in this country sir! Not! That is expressly ruled out! -- Allan Rock
Words aren't hurting anybody. Words are not causing any damage, not expressly and not directly. But we're so focused on the words. -- Rush Limbaugh
An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it. -- Abraham Lincoln
No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires. -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Our ancient laws expressly declare that those who are but delegates themselves shall not delegate to others powers which require judgment and integrity in their exercise. -- Thomas Jefferson
Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation. -- John Newton
My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and as I don't feel. -- Amanda McKittrick Ros
Chief Justice Roberts has expressly said that the Constitution and the government should be colorblind, he sees no difference between government action that discriminates against minorities and one that benefits minorities. -- Erwin Chemerinsky
Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy -- Thomas Jefferson
Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy. -- Thomas Jefferson
The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as what is not Greek, not Christian, nor Western, not Aryan. -- Catharine MacKinnon
Is there a Legislative power in fact, not expressly prohibited by the Constitution, which might not, according to the doctrine of the Court, be exercised as a means of carrying into effect some specified Power? -- James Madison

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