#divided

Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#against #american #balances #checks #country

Moreover, in Russia there was an enormous amount of landed property to be divided, large estates, crown lands, government land, and the estates held by the monasteries. ↗

— Herman Gorter

#crown #divided #enormous #estates #government

This nation is being divided into black and white, and the present system encourages this. ↗

— Pauline Hanson

#black #black and white #divided #encourages #into

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#because #between #both #determined #divided

In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States. ↗

— Robert Welch

#branches #constitution #divided #government #governmental

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#events #happened #in the past #into #matter

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. ↗

— Woody Allen

#horrible #into #life #miserable

The president said that he would unite this country, that he was a uniter, not a divider. Have you ever seen America more divided? Have you ever seen Washington more divided? ↗

— John Edwards

#country #divided #ever #more #president

When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn't be a brick wall. So I'd sidle over to the door and I'd pull it open. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#been #brick #brick wall #convinced #divided

Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#him #inheritance #know #man #never