Impairing The Obligation Quotes

#1. Bills of attainder, ex-post facto laws and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation.

James Madison

#2. You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles.

Gordon Sinclair

#3. Everybody is changing.

Swami Vivekananda

#4. According to Abkhazian custom, the time you spend with guests around the table doesn't count toward your lifespan because you're drinking wine and enjoying yourself.

Svetlana Alexievich

#5. What in god's name happened to your nuts?"
"They met a jet-powered water hose."
He grimaced.
"They're already healing."
A rare glint of amusement lit Lawrence's eyes. "You have balls of steel."
"You have inappropriate humour.

Dianna Hardy

#6. Two excellent crime fiction writers I'm currently reading...

Laura Wilson and Andrew Taylor

Roger Boutwell

#7. When first presented with the jumble of the periodic table, I scanned for mercury and couldn't find it. It is there - between gold, which is also dense and soft, and thallium, which is also poisonous. But the symbol for mercury, Hg, consists of two letters that don't even appear in its name.

Sam Kean

#8. How else to explain the great mysteries of life and death except through the providence of God? How else to try to make sense of it all? Sunday

Karen J. Hasley

#9. The job of a journalist is to find out stuff. The job of the government - sometimes - is to keep stuff secret. There's a natural tension there.

Alex Gibney

#10. No State shall pass any law impairing the [natural] obligation of contracts.

Lysander Spooner

#11. Each album we [The Replacements] made was the one we were capable of making and wanted to make at the time. Each one was a progression or, depending on your opinion, a sidestep or tumble forward. I don't know what.

Paul Westerberg

#12. You might be a redneck if you think Silence of the Lambs is what happens when Larry walks out to the barn.

Jeff Foxworthy