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“Unless we repeal the illegal Byrd amendment, American exports will be vulnerable to retaliation, and the U.S. will continue to face a difficult task convincing other countries to make their laws comply with international rules.”

Country Faces Law Difficult Tasks International Vulnerable Illegal Amendments Other Countries Convincing Retaliation Difficult Tasks Convincing Others

Author:Jim Ramstad

“Justice White's conclusion is perhaps correct, if one assumes that the task of a court of law is to plumb the intent of the particular Congress that enacted a particular provision. That methodology is not mine nor, I think, the one that courts have traditionally followed. It is our task, as I see it, not to enter the minds of the Members of Congress - who need have nothing in mind in order for their votes to be both lawful and effective - but rather to give fair and reasonable meaning to the text of the United States Code, adopted by various Congresses at various times.”

“The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.”

Country Law Spirit Lying Growth Courage Talent Tasks Lawyer Dumb Wealthy Clients Disbelief Enabling Efficacy

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down on their task because it is cast in the day of small things; scornful of baseness, awake to their own duties as well as to their rights, following the higher law with reverence, and in this world doing all that in their power lies, so that when death comes they may feel that humanity is in some degree better because they lived.”

“Thought may well be ever ranging, And opinion ever changing, Task-work be, though ill begun, Dealt with by experience better; By the law and by the letter Duty done is duty done Do it, Time is on the wing!”

Wells May Done Law Opinion Duty Tasks Letters Wings Ill

Book:Poems: With a Memoir

Source: Poems: With a Memoir

“The first step in the direction of a world rule of law is the recognition that peace no longer is an unobtainable ideal but a necessary condition of continued human existence. But to take even this step we must return to a calm and responsible frame of mind in which we can face the long patient tasks ahead.”

World Mind Firsts Humans Long Faces Law Existence Steps Conditions Return Ideals Tasks Responsible Patient Calm Recognition First Steps Rule Of Law Human Existence Frame Of Mind

Author:Margaret Mead

“One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the ruthlessness of an immensely powerful engine. A machine vast, complicated... It grinds night and day; it obeys immutable and predetermined laws; it is as devoid of understanding, of sympathy, of imagination, as is any other piece of machinery that performs an appointed task. Into it is fed all raw human material in Ireland; it seizes upon it inexorably and rends and compresses and remoulds...”

“There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions.”

Government Law Social Failing Conditions Essentials Tasks Institute Accounting Register Divergence Laws And Government

Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“Marx, however imperfectly he worked out the details, set himself the task of discovering the law of motion of capitalism, and if there is any hope of progress in economics at all, it must be in using academic methods to solve the problems posed by Marx.”

Ifs Problem Law Progress Capitalism Economics Tasks Method Details Solve Academic Discovering Laws Of Motion

Book:Essay on Marxian Economics

Source: Essay on Marxian Economics

“Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own task remains that of relating the essential sequence of historical action and, qua history, to tell what happened, not why.”

May Use Action Law Courses Written Happened Essentials Tasks Remains Historical Various Narrative Sequence Written History

Book:The New Psychohistory

Source: The New Psychohistory

“I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.”

People Light Law Suffering Difficult Atheism Tasks Agree Positive Atheism Educated Priests Amusement Corn Denominations Difficult Tasks

Author:Richard Cobden

“Our law enforcement must have every tool necessary to find and disrupt terrorists at home and abroad. That's the task of the 21st century.”

Home Law Century Tools Tasks Terrorist 21st Century Law Enforcement Enforcement

Author:George W. Bush

“This is the real task before us: to reassert our commitment as a nation to a law higher than our own, to renew our spiritual strength. Only by building a wall of such spiritual resolve can we, as a free people, hope to protect our own heritage and make it someday the birthright of all men.”

People Men Real Spiritual Law Nations Building Wall Higher Protect Commitment Tasks Someday Resolve Heritage Birthright Spiritual Strength

Book:Speaking my mind: selected speeches

Source: Speaking my mind: selected speeches