Quotes of: Charter-schools Keyword

In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example and France has followed it, of charters of power granted by liberty. This revolution in the practice of the world may, with an honest praise, be pronounced the mos...

James Madison

Charters: If only we hadn't missed that train at Budapest. Caldicott: Well, I don't want to rub it in, but if you hadn't insisted on standing up until they'd finished their national anthem... Charters: Yes, but you must show respect, Caldicott. If I'...

The Lady Vanishes

The press is like the air, a chartered libertine.

William Pitt

The U.N. charter bars the threat of force.

Noam Chomsky

You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.

Alan Autry

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.

Gerrit Smith

There's probably about 150 charters in the world. We're the biggest international club there is.

Chuck Zito

Then we have a World Run, where representatives from all the charters meet.

Chuck Zito

It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.

Noam Chomsky

The reform process began with the historic consensus on the Charter of National Action, in which the Bahraini people decided on a new chapter of their history.

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.

Aldrich Ames

Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

Nadine Gordimer

That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed.

Mitch Kapor

The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.

Aaron Klein

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

Walter Lippmann

Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

Middlemarch

I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling.

Henry Mayhew

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

James Madison

Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.

Tran Duc Luong

I will begin first to search out this right by that magna charta, that great and faithful charter which was made to Abraham, the father of the faithful, in the name of all his seed.

Thomas Goodwin