Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.
Abraham Lincoln did not contend that his actions were immune from Congressional correction; on the contrary, he specifically said he was acting beyond the present provisions in the expectation that congress would retroactively approve, which they did. He did not say anything like Richard Nixon: if the president does it is legal.
Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.
The greatest part of mankind. . . are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
The New Deal is inconsistent with the principles of limited government and with the constitutional provisions designed to secure that end.
White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.
Rs 6500 crore disclosed under compliance window of black money & foreign assets law. People fear the law that has now been created. Stringent provisions will not be diluted despite pressures.
As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases.
In harvesting of evil deeds, the human race is busy; and doing so is to taste the pangs of Hell. . . The piling up of wealth is the piling up of others' property; what one thus storeth formeth but provisions for one's enemies. . . I wash off human scandal by devotion true; and by my zeal, I satisfy the Deities. By compassion, I subdue the demons; all blame I scatter to the wind, and upward turn my face.
Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe until a trespass on the Constitution provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents and invasion of the dearest rights.
If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive--all would have perished by want of subsistence.
God makes provision for our holiness, but He gives us the responsibility of using those provisions.
We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve.
Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the soul.
What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not stick the entire bankruptcy community with these provisions that do not make any sense?
We shall not bind ourselves by treaties. We shall not allow ourselves to be entangled by treaties. We reject all clauses on plunder and violence, but we shall welcome all clauses containing provisions for good-neighbourly relations and all economic agreements; we cannot reject these.
The market's been soft,. . and I think that's mostly a result of the new provisions in the collective bargaining agreement.
In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws. Its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic, but which are not to be attained by the separate provisions of any.
We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.