Compact Set Attains

Famous quotes containing the words compact, set and/or attains:

    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)

    I’ll give my jewels for a set of beads,
    My gorgeous palace for a hermitage,
    ...
    And my large kingdom for a little grave,
    A little, little grave, an obscure grave.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.
    John Ruskin (1819–1900)