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New planted Colonies are generally attended with a Force and Necessity of Planting the known and approved Staple and Product of the Country, as well as all the Provisions their Families spend. -- John Lawson
The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States. -- Salmon Portland Chase
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield. -- Earl Warren
The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad. -- James Madison
In our social contract, we have provisions that see to it that you take care of people who need some help. -- Arlen Specter
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
Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. -- James Madison
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
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
We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment. -- Buffalo Bill
They must therefore not spoil Alexander's undertaking, especially when they were almost at the close of their toils, and were, moreover, no longer in any difficulty about provisions on their coasting cruise. -- Arrian
Each State has its own health insurance mandates, and some of them are good, but there are about 1,800 of them all across the Nation, including provisions for acupuncturists, massage therapists, and hair replacements. -- Timothy Murphy
One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements. -- Dennis Hastert
It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat. -- Jim Saxton
My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you. -- Martin Van Buren
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
A good cult delivers on its promises. A good cult nourishes the needs of its members, has transparency and integrity, and creates provisions for challenging its leadership openly. A good cult expands the freedoms and well-being of its members rather than limits them. -- Philip Zimbardo
It's a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments. -- Sylvia Earle
The Hebrew Bible contains multiple provisions to ensure that no one would go hungry. The corners of the field, forgotten sheaves of grain, gleanings that drop from the hands of the gleaner, and small clusters of grapes left on the vine were to be given to the poor. -- Jonathan Sacks
The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it. -- Larry J. Sabato
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
In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. -- Benjamin Franklin
Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
The Safe Drinking Water Act, the safety provisions of the Clean Water Acts, the Clean Air Act, the Superfund Law - the gas industry is exempt from all these basic environmental and worker protections. They don't have to disclose the chemicals they use. They don't have to play by the same rules as anybody else. -- Josh Fox
I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish postal service and, after it capitulated, was shot by the Germans under the provisions of martial law. Suddenly he was no longer a member of the family, and we were no longer allowed to play with his children. -- Gunter Grass
Truth is, I think, if God just gave us our daily bread, many of us would be angry. 'That's all you're going to give me? You're just going to give me enough to sustain me for today? What about tomorrow or next year or 10, 20, 30 years from now? I want to know that I'm set up.' And yet Jesus says just pray for your daily provisions. -- Francis Chan
I am thankful for the Lord's daily provisions. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Lord I thank you for the timely provisions -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I am thankful to the Lord His daily provisions. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions. -- George Herbert
Both camels are dead and our provisions are done. -- William John Wills
Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions. -- Charles Wagner
I had a Viking sense of entitlement to whatever provisions I could plunder. -- Jonathan Franzen
Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve. -- Michel de Montaigne
I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions. -- Bob Inglis
The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States. -- Salmon P. Chase
Constitutional provisions are not barriers to government misconduct. At best, they can be speed bumps. -- Arnold Kling
Torture is illegal. Torture is banned by various provisions of the law. I support that. -- Mike Pence
His blessings and His provisions for us are based entirely on HIS GOODNESS and HIS FAITHFULNESS. -- Joseph Prince
God makes provision for our holiness, but He gives us the responsibility of using those provisions. -- Jerry Bridges
God is glorified when His people find satisfaction in Him and in His provisions for them. -- Max Anders
In Egypt, a civil state means a modern nationalist state that is compatible with Islamist provisions. -- Ali Gomaa
If you know how it is to be without food then you will appreciate your daily provisions. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield -- Earl Warren
On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse. -- Jane Austen
Where there is no market economy, the best intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter. -- Ludwig von Mises
I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight. -- Mark Twain
The market's been soft, .. and I think that's mostly a result of the new provisions in the collective bargaining agreement. -- Andrew Zimbalist
White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks. -- Peggy McIntosh
if human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy. -- Antoinette Brown Blackwell
In addition to the clean coal provisions, the energy conference agreement contains provisions instrumental in helping increase conservation and lowering consumption. -- Jerry Costello
The New Deal is inconsistent with the principles of limited government and with the constitutional provisions designed to secure that end. -- Richard Allen Epstein
I will not support efforts that kill jobs in my district and lack provisions for responsibly transitioning us toward a clean-energy economy. -- Ann Kirkpatrick
In my judgement, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions. -- Alberto Gonzales
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
We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay. -- Mignon McLaughlin
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
Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional.....All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle. -- Earl Warren
Every need brings what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child. Having nothing produces provisions. Ask a difficult question, And the marvelous answer appears. -- Rumi
Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions. -- Patrick MacGill
Greed is mistaken nobility. Instead of robbing all the pain and hardship from people's lives and rescuing them from danger, greed robs provisions from providers. -- Justin K. McFarlane Beau
As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases. -- Diogenes
The - one of the greatest provisions for people like me, to be honest with you - I give up a lot when I run. -- Donald Trump
Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the soul. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The provisions of Christ's gospel appear mean and scanty to the world, yet they satisfy all that feed on him in their hearts by faith with thanksgiving. -- Matthew Henry
I feel no doubt whatever that the parish laws of England have contributed to raise the price of provisions and to lower the real price of labour. -- Thomas Malthus
If those states which did not have right-to-carry concealed gun provisions had adopted them in 1992, approximately 1,570 murders; 4,177 rapes; and over 60,000 aggravate assaults would have been avoided yearly. -- John R. Lott Jr.
Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. thats all we thought about. No thought of revenge, or of parents. Only of bread. -- Elie Wiesel Night
It will be important to restore those provisions, those disclose provisions, those release provisions so that presidents are indeed held accountable and their information and papers are made public. -- Ted Gup
No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government. -- Roger Brooke Taney
Rs 6500 crore disclosed under compliance window of black money & foreign assets law. People fear the law that has now been created. Stringent provisions will not be diluted despite pressures. -- Narendra Modi
We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning. -- Joseph Addison
An isolated man like Alexander Selkirk might feel the benefit of a stock of provisions, tools and other means of facilitating industry, although cut off from traffic, with other men. -- William Stanley Jevons
[I]n framing a Government for a nation we ought, in those provisions which are designed to be permanent, to calculate not on temporary, but on permanent causes of expence. -- Alexander Hamilton
The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living. -- John Locke
We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Manufacturers...gradually shift their places, leaving those countries and provinces which they have already enriched, and flying to others, whether they are allured by the cheapness of provisions and labour. -- David Hume
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
when someone you love dies, he becomes your enemy; he fights you tooth and nail from a hidden position; he successfully raids what small provisions you have gathered to keep yourself going. -- Rosalyn Drexler
Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe until a trespass on the Constitution provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents and invasion of the dearest rights... -- James Madison
The provisions we have made [for our government] are such as please ourselves; they answer the substantial purposes of government and of justice, and other purposes than these should not be answered. -- Thomas Jefferson
I am astonished about those people who are ordered to prepare their provisions, then the start of the journey is announced, however they remain unmindful in their vain discussions and fruitless deeds. -- Hasan of Basra
At the World Cup and even now at the Confederations Cup, our security provisions will ensure the greatest level of protection possible for all those participating - both inside and outside the stadiums. -- Franz Beckenbauer
I suppose the Green Party doesn't care for the anti-civil libertarian provisions of the notoriously named Patriot Act, invading privacy, and being able to search your home, and not tell you for 72 hours. -- Ralph Nader
Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself. -- Abraham Lincoln
There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy -- Thomas Jefferson
You in the media ought to be ashamed of yourselves to call the provisions and the guarantees of the Bill of Rights 'Technicalities'. They're not. We are what we are because of those guarantees. -- William J. Brennan

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