In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties.
The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula.
Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion.
The existing system will be quickest and most radically overthrown by the annihilation of its exponents. Therefore, massacres of the enemies of the people must be set in motion.
The United States is the only country left now, bar Romania, Bulgaria and Poland, that has this all-government system.
The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California.
The decline of the major labels has changed the audience. They aren't force-fed by a system any more. They can make their own decisions.
There is a certain generation who have grown up being able to mash up, to tinker with, every system they've ever encountered.
Satan's survival-of-the-fittest system appears to work- in the short run. But the great controversy is about the long run.
The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it.
The fact that industries wax and wane is a reality of any economic system that wants to remain dynamic and responsive to people's changing tastes.
Virtually all modern forms of extremism accuse liberal Western democratic systems of being hypocritical and, ultimately, weak.
I happen to agree with many of President Obama's policies, but in our system, it is often as important how you do something as what you do.
The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.
You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
Certainly, its important to protect the water system and that covers, certainly, everything from vandals to terrorists.
In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.
A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.
I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in London.