Enumerated Quotes

#1. We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.

William Rehnquist

#2. This government is acknowledged by all, to be one of enumerated powers.

John Marshall

#3. Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.

Lactantius

#4. The federal government is acknowledged by all to be one of enumerated powers. The principle, that it can exercise only the powers granted to it ... is now universally admitted.

John Marshall

#5. Whenever the names of the disciples are enumerated in the New Testament, St. Peter's stands at their head.

John Strachan

#6. If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything-and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.

Clarence Thomas

#7. There are many things wealth cannot buy, and most of those are enumerated by philosophers who have never woken wondering if this day would be their last.

Jacqueline Carey

#8. Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.

Thomas Jefferson

#9. The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we propose to give the name of radium.

Marie Curie

#10. If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one ...

James Madison

#11. The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.

Rand Paul

#12. Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.

Paul Valery

#13. Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.

Irving Langmuir

#14. The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects, beyond which it cannot extend its jurisdiction.

James Madison

#15. We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. In this relation, then, the proposed government cannot be deemed a national one; since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only, and leaves to the several states, a residuary and inviolable sovereignty over all other objects.

James Madison

#17. Anybody who prefers working to being pretty and fucking a lot probably hasn't done enough of either.

Sienna McQuillen

#18. It's funny ... you can make fun of AIDS or Haiti, but if you make fun of some starlet in Hollywood's looks? That's like the one thing ... the line you are not to cross.

Daniel Tosh

#19. I read the line over and over as if I might discern the little fires set the flames of an idea licking the page how knowledge burns

Natasha Trethewey

#20. The Mind of Man
My haunt, and the main region of my song.

William Wordsworth

#21. Imagination guides you in your contacts with individuals and crowds, so you can discover new concepts and approaches.

Wilferd Peterson

#22. Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.

Anthony De Mello

#23. Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.

Edward Abbey