Quotes About Ratification

#1. But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification.

Thomas Day

#2. The Democrats current crudeness is a function of their desperation, and the imminent ratification of Howard Dean, the least charming presidential candidate in recent memory, as their party chairman only serves to punctuate the problem.

Joe Klein

#3. Patrick Henry aligned himself against ratification. So did Richard Henry Lee.

Douglas Southall Freeman

#4. I too mean to be out of politics. The ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment gives me the boon of equality before the law, terminates my enlistment, and discharges me cured.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#5. Let all Americans sit down and read this great document. Since the Constitution's ratification, it has been the framework for our great nation.

Bob Latta

#6. We do not ask to be born; and we do not ask to die. But born we are and die we must. We come into existence and we pass out of existence. And in neither case does high-handed fate await our ratification of its decree.

Corliss Lamont

#7. It is to be the assent and ratification of the several States, derived from the supreme authority in each State, the authority of the people themselves. The act, therefore establishing the Constitution, will not be a NATIONAL, but a FEDERAL act.

James Madison

#8. Rejection would be a disaster for the U.S., but ratification alone will not end our problems in Iraq. Even if the constitution is ratified, the insurgents are not going to lay down their arms.

Andrew Bacevich

#9. A perfectly tuned conversation is a vision of sanity--a ratification of one's way of being human and one's way in the world.

Deborah Tannen

#10. But we know that just because we want something does not mean that we will get what we want,

Madeleine L'Engle

#11. But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of the social system.

Herbert Schiller

#12. A man is ruled by appetite and remorse, and I swallowed what I could.

Elise Blackwell

#13. We get our rights from our Creator as individuals. So every individual should be treated the same way.

Ron Paul

#14. You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.

Robert Ballard