“All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil, or become sickly when deprived of light, or die outright if removed to a cold climate? it is because the harmony between its organization and its circumstances has been destroyed.” IfsDoeHas BeensLightDiesEvilPoorResultsConditionsColdCircumstancesOrganizationConstitutionHarmonyClimateDestroyedSoilAdaptationDeprivedShrubsCold Climate Book:Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed Source: Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed
“A lot of Americans have some view of the Constitution as just this thing that was handed down [intact]. But it really was the result of months and months of wrangling and disputation and ultimately compromise. That's where the brilliance of the American system is -- it's always been built on compromise.” ResultsViewsMonthsBuiltConstitutionCompromiseBrillianceWrangling Author:Bill Vaughan
“One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election.” GovernmentPoliticalHousePoliticsLeadershipResultsMoneyPartyDemocracyPolicyTaxesConstitutionElectionCongressIdeologyBranchesFree SpeechPolitical PartiesFactionsPartisanshipBranches Of Government Author:Barack Obama
“Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right granted by the Constitution. No serious scholar, including one disposed to agree with the Court's result, has argued that the framers of the Constitution intended to create such a right.” ResultsMistakeSeriousDemandConstitutionAgreeCourtIncludingGrantedAbortionScholarFramers Author:Ronald Reagan
“There is, between the sexes, a law of incessant reciprocal action, of which God avails himself in the constitution of the family, when He permits brothers and sisters to nestle about the same hearthstone. Its ministration is essential to the best educational results. Our own educational institutions should rest upon this divine basis.” ShouldActionLawSexResultsEducationDivineBrotherEssentialsBasesConstitutionInstitutionsEducationalPermitBrothers And SistersIncessantReciprocalBest EducationEducational Institutions Author:Caroline Wells Healey Dall