#slate

Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act. ↗

— Dave Freudenthal

#action #before #believe #broad #charted

The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius. ↗

— Dahlia Lithwick

#jurisprudence #slate #equality

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#expect #liberty #translated

The Constitution created a framework, not a Ouija board, precisely because the Framers understood that prospect of a nation ruled for centuries by dead prophets would be the very opposite of freedom. ↗

— Dahlia Lithwick

#jurisprudence #slate #freedom

Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound. ~Slater ↗

— Ted Dekker

#living #slater #humor

All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire. ↗

— Rumi

#desire

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#does #hatred #legislate #only #organizes

Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#colonial #condemned #increasingly #into #new

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#audience #concert #instinct #into #me

Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#dues #every #incremental #into #payment