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Letter "C" » Congress of
«Peacetime conscription is the greatest step toward regimentation and militarism ever undertaken by the Congress of the United States»
«All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.»
«I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists»
«It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self.»
«America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments»
Author: Anatole France
(
Writer)
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About:
America and Americans
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Keywords:
America,
Commandments,
congress,
Congress of,
enforce,
enforces,
enforcing,
forty,
Laws,
million,
ten,
Ten Commandments,
thanking,
thanks,
The Ten,
The Ten Commandments
«(I support efforts) to limit the terms of the members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate»
Author: Dan Quayle
(
Vice President)
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Keywords:
congress,
Congress of,
efforts,
especially,
house,
limit,
members,
senate,
senates,
support,
terms,
the Senate
«Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(
Philosopher,
Statesman)
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Keywords:
advocate,
advocates,
agent,
agents,
ambassadors,
assembly,
Bristol,
congress,
Congress of,
deliberative,
general assembly,
general interest,
hostile,
local,
member,
Member of Parliament,
One Nation,
parliament,
parliaments,
prejudices,
purposes,
resulting,
The Ambassadors,
The General
«I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.»
Author: James Madison
(
President)
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About:
Benevolence,
Charity,
Government,
Taxation
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Keywords:
article,
benevolence,
Congress of,
constituent,
constituents,
expend,
expended,
expending,
expends,
finger,
on that,
undertake
«Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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About:
Funny
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Keywords:
congress,
Congress of,
idiot,
member,
myself,
repeat,
suppose,
supposes,
The Idiot
«It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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About:
America and Americans
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Keywords:
American,
class,
congress,
Congress of,
criminal,
distinctly,
facts,
figures,
no show,
shown,
The Criminals