Quotes of: Massachusetts Keyword

If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.

Slavery in Massachusetts

I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.

Slavery in Massachusetts

A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world.

Slavery in Massachusetts

Those who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.

Slavery in Massachusetts

Let me announce this to the American people tonight one of the best things about this debate, as a Democrat from Massachusetts, I have proposed eliminating, getting rid of the alternative minimum tax.

Richard Neal

My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the reunion with documents!

Stacy Schiff

It's no surprise that Mitt Romney bent himself into a pretzel to disavow the portions of Obamacare that derive from his own reform in Massachusetts.

Timothy Noah

I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Niall Ferguson

I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.

Patrick Stewart

My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They were both immigrant families that - well, my father's family came as Puritans to Massachusetts.

Phil Jackson

I'm working on Leno. He's from my home state, Massachusetts. And my home country, Italy. I said, 'Hey, Jay, why don't you have me on your show? Afraid I'll be funnier than you?'

Joe Arpaio

The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.

John Buchanan Robinson

Buggin' Out: Why don't you go back to Massachusetts? Clifton: I was born in Brooklyn!

Do the Right Thing

My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.

Kenneth G. Wilson

I thought I would be governor of Massachusetts. I stood on a pile of my old albums and said, 'I'm the only one with a record to stand on.'

Arlo Guthrie

I grew up in a very small town in Massachusetts, and it goes without saying that there weren't many Nigerian families in that town, and a lot of people couldn't say Uzoamaka.

Uzo Aduba

The first newspaper I worked on was the 'Springfield Union' in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and got three responses, two no's.

Tom Wolfe

But smile faded as he thought of what other provisions the contained. What would the godly say when they learned that the electorate was no longer to be limited to but broadened to include propertied members of every Christian sect this side of papis...

The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry Into the Salem Witch Trials

Sister Georgina had studied at Cambridge or, as she put it, 'Not-the-one-in-Massachusetts-Cambridge-Universitythe-real-one-you-know-in-England.

The Long Earth

There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of 'expediency.' There is no such thing as sliding up hill. In morals, the only sliders are backsliders.

Slavery in Massachusetts

Where gays and lesbians are the best organized and most concentrated in numbers are states that President Clinton must carry in order to be reelected in 1996. Among the states are California, New York, Michigan, Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts, Ill...

David Mixner