Unanimous Quotes

#1. We must be unanimous; there must be no pulling different ways; we must hang together.

John Hancock

#2. Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.

Ted Cruz

#3. There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.

Jeff Merkley

#4. Our goal is not to win the war, we have already done it. Our goal is to find a just solution, and we are unanimous on the ways to find it.

Serzh Sargsyan

#5. When everybody agrees," Taggart's voice suddenly went shrill, "when people are unanimous, how does one man dare to dissent? By what right? That's what I want to know - by what right?

Ayn Rand

#6. Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure.

Edward Abbey

#7. Only two possible reactions to the mimetic contagion exist, and they make an enormous difference. Either we surrender and join the persecuting crowd, or we resist and stand alone. The first way is the unanimous self-deception we call mythology.

Rene Girard

#8. The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: 'the Sufis are not merchants'.

Idries Shah

#9. We either need an overwhelming force advantage, or we need more information."
"Reinforcements cut into our bounty, remember?"
"It's unanimous. We need more information.

Howard Tayler

#10. The best authorities are unanimous in saying that a war with H-bombs might possibly put an end to the human race. It is feared that if many H-bombs are used there will be universal death, sudden only for a minority, but for the majority a slow torture of disease and disintegration.

Bertrand Russell

#11. Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.

Stephen Ambrose

#12. I formed a new group called Alcoholics-Unanimous. If you don't feel like a drink, you ring another member and he comes over to persuade you.

Richard Harris

#13. Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers,
and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things.
It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement. We become what we think about.

Earl Nightingale

#14. I think even though the court is moving toward trying to translate the Constitution into a digital age, there was that wonderful unanimous decision that Chief Justice Roberts wrote saying you can't search a cellphone on arrest without a warrant.

Jeffrey Rosen

#15. When the Habsburg State crumbled to pieces in 1918 the Austrian Germans instinctively raised an outcry for union with their German fatherland. That was the voice of a unanimous yearning in the hearts of the whole people for a return to the unforgotten home of their fathers.

Adolf Hitler

#16. The fears are unanimous. ObamaCare is too expensive. It is a government takeover of our healthcare system. Services will be diminished. The patient-doctor relationship will be eliminated. It will not make healthcare more affordable. And it will bankrupt small businesses.

Joseph M. Kyrillos

#17. The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.

Voltaire

#18. They are unanimous in their hate for me; and I welcome their hatred. (quoting FDR announcing the Second New Deal, 1936)

Yanis Varoufakis

#19. My staff was unanimous in believing that Japan was on the point of collapse and surrender.

Douglas MacArthur

#20. My veins do not end in me but in the unanimous blood of those who struggle for life, love, things, landscape and bread, the poetry of all.

Roque Dalton

#21. The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous ... but not quite.

John Steinbeck

#22. Word spread quickly: The visitor wished to address the scholars.
'What can he want?' they wondered, streaming into the Royal Theater. Attendance was voluntary, and unanimous. If the sight of the warriors wasn't enough to stoke their curiosity, there was rumor of a 'rare opportunity'.

Laini Taylor

#23. I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

George Bernard Shaw

#24. Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.

Laura Miller

#25. Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm; and where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#26. Cited Riley versus California." "That's my girl! Cocounsel, I mean. Jeez, that case came down just in time! Unanimous. All nine justices. Cops need a warrant to search your cell phone.

Paul Levine

#27. according to the unanimous opinion of anthropologists, the organization of enforced labor is one of the essentials of civilization.

Stanton Coit

#28. Unfortunately, some judges evidently do not regard a debate in Parliament on new immigration rules, followed by the unanimous adoption of those rules, as evidence that Parliament actually wants to see those new rules implemented.

Theresa May

#29. Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.

Bryant H. McGill

#30. Americans rouse - be unanimous, be virtuous, be firm, exert your courage, trust in Heaven, and nobly defy the enemies both of God and man!

Alexander Hamilton

#31. I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight.

Douglas Hurd

#32. Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#33. In a surprising unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court ruled the police cannot search what is on your phone without a warrant. Court observers said a unanimous decision from this court was slightly less likely than Scalia winning the annual Supreme Court wet robe contest.

Peter Sagal

#34. Until it had been clearly explained that men were always and always partly wrong in all their ideas, life would be full of poison and secret bitterness. Men fight about their philosophies and religions, there is no certainty in them; but their contempt for women is flawless and unanimous.

Dorothy Richardson

#35. Everyone in the place seen me nut him apart from the ref, it caught him on the blind side. I tried to nut him on the eyebrow so it would split open, but I got him on the forehead. The crowd turned right against me, but I made it to the last bell and lost on a unanimous decision.

Stephen Richards

#36. I am something of a contrarian, I suppose. I feel less comfortable when everybody agrees with me. I say, 'I better reexamine my position!' I probably believe that the worst opinions in my court have been unanimous. Because there's nobody on the other side pointing out all the flaws.

Antonin Scalia

#37. There was a time when everyone thought that Earth was flat. Did this unanimous consensus make any difference to the shape of Earth?

Ali Sina

#38. Just as the First and Fourth Amendment secure individual rights of speech and security respectively, the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.

John Ashcroft

#39. Those who would send out thousands of questionnaires asking the unconverted what they would desire most in a worship service should realize that ten thousand unanimous opinions of carnal men do not carry the authority of one jot or tittle of God's Word.

Paul Washer

#40. Nothing feels better than listening to the lament of your own heart- so unanimous in its own little world.

Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal

#41. You had to have a unanimous jury verdict, and one percent of contributory negligence barred all recovery. It was so satisfying to realize I could do it. And I'll tell you what motivated me: competitiveness. I was betting on me. That's what a contingent-fee lawyer does.

Joe Jamail

#42. Nothing that results in progress is achieved by unanimous consent!

Jerry Ring

#43. To subdue and crush the masses of a nation by military force, when all are unanimous in the determination to be free, is to attempt the imprisonment of a whole people; all such projects must be temporary and transient, and terminate in a catastrophe...

William Dalrymple

#44. I would in fact tend to have more confidence in the outcome of a democratic decision if there was a minority that voted against it, than if it was unanimous ... Social psychology has amply shown the strength of this bandwagon effect.

Jurgen Habermas

#45. While you've been gadding about the countryside, we've held a meeting, and we've all of us decided that you must go.'
In short, we've voted you out of the family,' Daffy said. 'It was unanimous.

Alan Bradley

#46. Audiences respond in entirely different ways. One thing is unanimous - music binds us altogether.

Aleksey Igudesman

#47. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob ... [The organized moneyed people] are unanimous in their hate for me and I welcome their hatred ... I should like to have it said of my second administration that these forces met their master.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#48. awake at night?" The response is practically unanimous: Leaders worry about creating a sense of urgency in their organizations and operating quickly in an increasingly complex world. They want to create strong teams that are primed to handle any hurdle that comes their way and

Jason Jennings

#49. EssJay was appointed at the request of and unanimous support of the ArbCom.

Jimmy Wales

#50. My way of viewing the talking filibuster was as a way of doing unanimous consent with your feet. You object by going down and talking.

Jeff Merkley

#51. The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#52. People should be suspicious if every decision was unanimous.

Don Iveson

#53. The president said nothing about the views of government in regard to the possibility of Carolinas seceding. This however was frequently spoken of by other statesmen at the North. I think they were unanimous in this, that no army would be sent here.

John Bachman

#54. Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of the others.

Christopher Columbus

#55. Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.

Aeschylus

#56. There is one passage in the Scriptures to which all the potentates of Europe seem to have given their unanimous assent and approbation ... "There went out a decree in the days of Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed."

Charles Caleb Colton

#57. The science has changed from ambiguous to near-unanimous ... Based on the data I'm now switching sides regarding global warming, from skeptic to convert.

Gregg Easterbrook

#58. A majority opinion does not represent the ultimate decision because such a view is not unanimous and lacks general will.

Duop Chak Wuol

#59. The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow.

Paul R. Ehrlich

#60. We must rouse in our people the unanimous wish for power in this sense, together with the determination to sacrifice on the altar of patriotism, not only life and property, but also private views and preferences in the interests of the common welfare.

Friedrich Von Bernhardi

#61. The debate is over. The scientific community has spoken in a virtually unanimous voice. Climate change is real. It is caused by human activity ...

Bernie Sanders

#62. They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories.

Robert Toombs

#63. We live in the post-trash, man. It'll be a real short eon. Down in the ectoplasmic circuitry where humanity's leaders are all linked up unconsciously with each other and with the masses, man, there's been this unanimous worldwide decision to trash the planet and get on to a new one.

Denis Johnson

#64. But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind

Jack London

#65. Seek first to understand, then and only then to be understood.

Unanimous

#66. You will never succeed until you want to as bad as one wants to breathe.

Unanimous

#67. Whether you are seeking adventure, or adventure is seeking you. You will find adventure, or adventure will find you.

Unanimous

#68. Try to touch the moon so that if you can't you can at lie in stars.

Unanimous

#69. Whether you chose right or left,or left than right. You have a choice, so chose the right one.

Unanimous

#70. The world will not change on its own. So we must stick together and put in the effort to change the world together.

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