#supreme

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As heirs to a legacy more than two centuries old, it is understandable why present-day Americans would take their own democracy for granted. A president freely chosen from a wide-open field of two men every four years; a Congress with a 99% incumbency rate; a Supreme Court comprised of nine politically appointed judges whose only oversight is the icy scythe of Death -- all these reveal a system fully capable of maintaining itself. But our perfect democracy, which neither needs nor particularly wants voters, is a rarity. It is important to remember there still exist other forms of government in the world today, and that dozens of foreign countries still long for a democracy such as ours to be imposed on them.


Jon Stewart


#democracy #humor #politics #supreme-court #voting

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.


Ansel Adams


#landscape #often #photographer #photography #supreme

Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional.


Stockwell Day


#cases #court #definition #did #even

You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.


Marianne Moore


#belief #captive #free #made #supreme

I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.


Constance Baker Motley


#argue #arising #before #capital #case

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.


Lewis Mumford


#drama #mechanized #society #supreme #war

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.


Joe Paterno


#becomes #confidence #else #habit #lose

I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being.


James Cash Penney


#being #belief #believe #better #i

When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.


Robert Jackson


#books #court #early #high #high quality

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.


Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn


#apprentice #artist #away #force #gladly