Roger B. Taney Quotes

In England, the sovereignty resides exclusively in the person or individual who is king. All Englishmen are his subjects. And the highest peer in the realm... has no share in the sovereignty.

Roger B. Taney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: judge
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 17, 1777 - October 12, 1864

Topics

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I am more interested in asking questions about the edges of things and thoughts. So the objects I use are not initially the subjects of the work; they are its ground.

Jessica Stockholder

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We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.

John Bright

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I just let the emotion dictate what the arrangement is.

Jeff Buckley

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When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum's house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me.

Simon Cowell

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If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow.

Robert Duvall

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I live in a small apartment. There's only so much Batman memorabilia a guy can hang on to in New York City.

Robin Lord Taylor

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Focus on doing the right things instead of a bunch of things.

Mike Krieger

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What's important to me is to share, and being inspired, and inspiring.

Diane von Furstenberg

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I don't think I'm an outsider at all.

Christina Ricci

ThinkOutsider

I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.

Preston Brooks

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I pray to start my day and finish it in prayer.

Tim Tebow

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I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

Marilyn Manson

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