Quotes About Northwest Ordinance

#1. And so Jefferson wrote the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which organized the new territories of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin so that slavery would be permanently illegal there.

Allen C. Guelzo

#2. Under the new government of the Constitution, beginning in 1789, all of the peacetime measures were repeated: chaplains, prayers, memorials of Thanksgiving, the Northwest Ordinance, funding for the Christian education of Indians.

M. Stanton Evans

#3. May we have happy days, satisfied minds, and little or no low back pain.

Stephen King

#4. Marriage is a partnership between one man and one woman ... Nothing could be clearer in the Bible as to what constitutes a marriage in God's sight.

David Jeremiah

#5. Oh, you'll what? You'll leave me? What's that supposed to be - a threat or a promise?

Richard Yates

#6. He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

Jules Michelet

#7. The sun appears in one of the upper corners of the rectangle, on the left of anyone looking at the picture.

Jose Saramago

#8. After we made love he took a piece of chalk and made an outline of my body.

Joan Rivers

#9. Perseverance is success inside out.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. I don't think we really measured the enormity of the whole occasion. I'm very, very surprised. We never expected it. When I set out in May we didn't realise how big this was. Only now have we realised the importance of this. [on the 2005 Ashes win

Duncan Fletcher

#11. I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.

Hunter S. Thompson

#12. Giving is the only thing that creates wealth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. Notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.

Anais Nin

#14. We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.

Charlie Sheen

#15. My main issue is sustainability of the Earth, and protection of those animals and people who dwell here.

Lynda Resnick

#16. I mean, like, I can go in a room and say, look, 'Watchmen' should be at least 15 minutes longer than 'Batman.' I mean, that's, like, any geek will tell you that.

Zack Snyder