Compact Object

Famous quotes containing the words compact and/or object:

“The powers of the federal government ... result from the compact to which the states are parties, [and are] limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)

“The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)