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Lysander Spooner Quotes

The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act of the whole people, the adoption of the Constitution was the merest farce and imposture, binding upon nobody.

Lysander Spooner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: american
Birth: January 19, 1808 - May 14, 1887

Topics

People Small Constitution Nobody Act

If I have a spare second, I usually catch up on the many magazines I'm behind on or watch the latest movies on demand that I usually missed at the theater. I love magazines. My top three: Graydon Carter's 'Vanity Fair', Adam Moss' 'New York magazine' and David Remnick's 'New Yorker.'

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Love New York Vanity New Three Top

I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas.

Andrew Davies

Love Character Story Enough Adapt

I only direct in self-defense.

Mel Brooks

Self-Defense Only Direct

There's nothing that helps clear my mind and improve my mood more than sweating in a room with my friends to some amazing new music and feeling stronger and taller every time I walk out. It's truly incredible. I'm addicted. And the results aren't half bad, either.

Anna Kaiser

Music Time Walk Mind Amazing Bad

When you know you can run forever on court, you're not worried that you can play three sets. I think this is really important for your confidence.

Angelique Kerber

Confidence Think You Play Know Run

With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system.

Steve Buscemi

Animal Prison Think You Cooperation

No doubt these rocky islands have suggested the idea worked out in gardens, and they have been well imitated.

Robert Fortune

Doubt Out Well Been Idea No Doubt

The evolution of the plaza always came from the idea of just a really good place to ride a skateboard that you could ride at anytime, and that's what the foundation always stands for - being a place that's free, open and legal... for those that are technical, to do really hard stuff, and for those who are learning, to just have fun.

Rob Dyrdek

Learning Good Ride Fun Have Fun You

There's childhood and early onset bipolar, but it transitions in your early adulthood into something a little bit different, and extremely severe. It was at that time that my impulse control just went out the window. Impulse control when you're manic just disappears.

Marya Hornbacher

Time Childhood Window Control You

The Farm Bill is one of the only bills that provides substantial deficit reduction that passed the Senate this year. It only makes sense that this deficit reduction bill would be included in a larger deficit reduction agreement.

Debbie Stabenow

Farm Year Agreement Sense Bills

There are more humans than all of the rabbits on earth. There are more of us than all the wildebeests, than all the rats, than all the mice. We are the most numerous mammal on the planet. But because we're not like rabbits or rats or mice, we have technology, we have a consumptive appetite, we have a global economy.

David Suzuki

Technology Earth More Economy Planet

What I tell young writers is to find those things that you're so passionate about that your energy doesn't run away.

Anthony Doerr

Energy You Find Young Run Tell