Famous quotes containing the words consists of and/or consists:
“[The Republican Party] consists of those who, believing in the doctrine that mankind are capable of governing themselves and hating hereditary power as an insult to the reason and an outrage to the rights of men, are naturally offended at every public measure that does not appeal to the understanding and to the general interest of the community.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“In my room, the world is beyond my understanding;
But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four hills and a cloud.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“In my room, the world is beyond my understanding;
But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four hills and a cloud.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“[Government’s] true strength consists in leaving individuals and states as much as possible to themselves—in making itself felt, not in its power, but in its beneficence, not in its control, but in its protection, not in binding the states more closely to the center, but leaving each to move unobstructed in its proper orbit.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)