James Polk quote: "The gratitude of the nation to the Sovereign Arbiter of All Human Events should be commensurate with the boundless blessings which we enjoy."

We can cite them for violations, but we don't have enforcement powers,
JAMES POLK

It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe fo...
JAMES POLK

The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and ...
JAMES POLK

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a subl...
JAMES POLK

Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people a...
JAMES POLK

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to ...
JAMES POLK

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroa...
JAMES POLK

He is kind of a ladies' man, too,
JAMES POLK

In court he is 'yes sir,' 'no sir' and 'please.' He always had this look about him of 'Who me?' - as...
JAMES POLK

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.
JAMES K. POLK

The most energetic and prompt measures and the immediate appearance in arms of a large and overpower...
JAMES K. POLK

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroa...
JAMES K. POLK

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of,...
JAMES K. POLK

It is of great importance to our country generally, and especially to our navigating and whaling int...
JAMES K. POLK

Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend...
JAMES K. POLK

No person can be more deeply sensible than myself of the danger of entangling alliances with any for...
JAMES K. POLK

Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people a...
JAMES K. POLK

With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.
JAMES K. POLK

A crowd of persons came in as soon as my office was opened. Among them were several ladies who calle...
JAMES K. POLK

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.
JAMES K. POLK

I cannot adequately express the horror I feel for a man who can be so base as to veil his hypocrisy ...
JAMES K. POLK

Senator Badger did not call. During the whole of the last session of Congress, he did not call on me...
JAMES K. POLK

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a subl...
JAMES K. POLK

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a subl...
JAMES KNOX POLK

It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe fo...
JAMES K. POLK

It is not questioned that the Federal Government is one of limited powers. Its powers are such, and ...
JAMES K. POLK

The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended...
JAMES K. POLK

Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.
JAMES K. POLK

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to ...
JAMES KNOX POLK

The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and ...
JAMES KNOX POLK

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.
JAMES KNOX POLK

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to ...
JAMES K. POLK

I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will...
JAMES K. POLK

The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and ...
JAMES K. POLK

Our relations with the various Indian tribes continue to be of a pacific character.
JAMES K. POLK

Remember that a noble logical diagram, once recorded, will never die; long after we are gone, it wil...
WILLIS POLK

It feels good to keep playing. Like I said the other day, I'm getting old and I want to keep playing...
BRANDON POLK

I don't want to celebrate just yet. It's a good honor to have. I'll sit back and be happy when the s...
BRANDON POLK

I always just try to remain calm. But I mean . . . just all the free throws I've missed, and being a...
BRANDON POLK

We've seen that they like to double in the post, so we have to be ready to handle that pressure. We ...
BRANDON POLK

I wasn't paying attention to who was guarding me. I just tried to do what I can to help us pull thro...
BRANDON POLK

To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.
WILLIS POLK

She wanted something responsible with the taxpayers' dollars. It's appropriate, and it gets the job ...
ANDY POLK

Innings are getting up there, arms are tired. (Pitching woes) can get contagious. Thankfully, we hav...
RON POLK

There are no financial incentives for nefarious activities.
CHARLES POLK

We had a lot of depth then, when Brooks was cut. Plus, he's gotten better. He's very good defensivel...
RON POLK

There is no need for the federal government to tax citizens for the upkeep of land that it doesn't w...
ANDY POLK

But Smith-Wills has done everything we asked, put a new playing surface in, put new lights in, but i...
RON POLK

He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings. (on his coach, John Jenkins, 1991)
TORRIN POLK

It is potentially an interesting alternative to Gallup polls or to specialists reporting from the re...
CHARLES POLK

Character witnesses are for when you're guilty and are looking for lenient sentencing.
CHARLES POLK

When you talk about racism what do you look for? You look for a pattern, ... The black justices that...
CHARLES POLK

The items discussed in the Wall Street Journal article are not fixed -- far from it.
POLK LAFFOON

Umpires are umpires, but he (Smith) was just incompetent.
RON POLK

The potential that violent contingencies could have been offered for trade in the [Pentagon]-backed ...
CHARLES POLK

Our bullpen has been great. We've been pounding the strike zone.
RON POLK

This was a good series for us. Arkansas State has a nice ball club and they have shown they are capa...
RON POLK

It's going pretty good. Right now my biggest thing is learning the plays and getting everything down...
CLINTON POLK

I like to compete, and I just wanted a chance. That was still here. I just kept in contact with Oreg...
CLINTON POLK

This is Division I. When I was at junior college they didn't hit like that. I left my feet. I slowed...
CLINTON POLK

I felt comfortable once I got my feet wet, but I still have things to work on.
CLINTON POLK

I turned around and went back in my room.
GABRIEL POLK

Dan makes over $200,000 a year. Marjorie makes about $60,000 a year as a teacher. Do you really thin...
GABRIEL POLK

I'm doing extremely well now.
GABRIEL POLK

I consider myself their foster child. I consider them my parents.
GABRIEL POLK

I still have affection for my brothers. I still have affection for you, but there's bad with the goo...
GABRIEL POLK

I got these funny answers that just unnerved me. I can tell when she lies.
GABRIEL POLK

Between the four years when you murdered my dad and now ... yeah, I grew a lot.
GABRIEL POLK

Because of the way you were acting. I didn't need his evidence. I saw your delusions myself.
GABRIEL POLK

This is a free benefit to all members that will help generate new business. We?re very excited about...
GREG POLK

The response was just amazing. So many people from the community stepped up to help, the numbers are...
GREG POLK

Mobile phone guys really need to decide whether to embrace it or reject it. If they are smart, they'...
GEORGE POLK

We have strong demand from existing customers for coverage in high density and high profile location...
GEORGE POLK

The good part is that we've won 11 games to start the season. The bad part is, they were all home ga...
RON POLK

I think consumers are demanding that we get less processed in general in everything that we do.
MICHAEL POLK

Richie Rich, Keoki, Amanda LaPore are really successful. They've joined the culture at large.
JAMES ST. JAMES

I came to NYU to study experimental theater. Shortly thereafter, I was featured in a 'Newsweek&#...
JAMES ST. JAMES

The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.
JAMES ST. JAMES

Why, oh why, must we always go through pigs to get our truffles?
JAMES ST. JAMES

I would go to the all-night grocery store and pretend that I was at Studio 54 because it was the onl...
JAMES ST. JAMES

We danced on the lip of the volcano, so to speak. We were young, too. And New York was still a big, ...
JAMES ST. JAMES

I'll always be a party monster. I'll always love getting dressed up.
JAMES ST. JAMES

As for my identity within the context of New York nightlife? I left in the '90s, so I'm not ...
JAMES ST. JAMES

I was definitely the oddball freak show in school.
JAMES ST. JAMES

When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big ...
JAMES ST. JAMES

I think that when you are a teenager, it's the smartest you will ever be in your life. Teenagers...
JAMES ST. JAMES

Watch out for the average--they're usually hiding something big.
JAMES ST. JAMES

There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free...
JAMES ST. JAMES

War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.
JAMES BLUNT

National honor is the national property of the highest value.
JAMES MONROE

Every person is created in the image of God and has value. Every person. Every person is to be treat...
JAMES LANKFORD

People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I m...
JAMES MCBRIDE

From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started openi...
KEVIN JAMES

My favorite movie of all time is 'Rocky.'
KEVIN JAMES

Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.
KEVIN JAMES

I really wasn't a class clown.
KEVIN JAMES

I've always had something in my heart where I root for guys who struggle with women.
KEVIN JAMES

Back in '93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then.
KEVIN JAMES

Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the s...
KEVIN JAMES

I try to connect with the everyday, every guy.
KEVIN JAMES

You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.
KEVIN JAMES

It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.
KEVIN JAMES

I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfo...
KEVIN JAMES

I don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are lick...
KEVIN JAMES

Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.
KEVIN JAMES

I've always been the guy who doesn't necessarily get it with women. A woman would have to sa...
KEVIN JAMES

Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next...
KEVIN JAMES

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.
KEVIN JAMES

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.
KEVIN JAMES

A song can take you to a special time in your life.
KEVIN JAMES

If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, '...
KEVIN JAMES

I could never be James Bond.
KEVIN JAMES

I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.
KEVIN JAMES

You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it&...
JAMES DASHNER

It's pretty scary to know how quickly time flies.
JAMES WAN

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...
WILLIAM JAMES

Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.
JAMES THOMSON

'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.
JAMES THOMSON

For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by...
JAMES THOMSON

The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no ...
JAMES THOMSON

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
JAMES THOMSON

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
JAMES THOMSON

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
JAMES THOMSON

When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feeling...
ETTA JAMES

Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a...
JAMES ROUSE

Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you...
JAMES GALWAY

A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
JAMES CALLAGHAN

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
JAMES KELLER

I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.
JAMES CORDEN

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing,...
LEBRON JAMES

In regards to your love life, you're just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If...
LILY JAMES

If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or v...
LENNIE JAMES

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
JAMES BROWN

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply ...
JAMES NAISMITH

But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.
LEBRON JAMES

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES

See, the thing that bothers me with young actors, young actors of color specifically, is that they s...
JAMES AVERY

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with othe...
JAMES TAYLOR

I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated.
JAMES FRANCO

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is ...
JAMES HILLMAN

The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world,...
JAMES HILLMAN

Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.
JAMES DYSON

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
WILLIAM JAMES

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and ...
JAMES BUCHANAN

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, ...
JAMES ALLEN

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID t...
JAMES WOLCOTT

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that t...
JAMES MONROE

We're in a world where masculinity, especially with these big spectacle movies, is often pushed ...
THEO JAMES

In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, c...
JAMES BELUSHI

An actor should be judged by his performance only.
JAMES DEAN

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the ki...
JAMES DEAN

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's followi...
JAMES DEAN

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this grea...
JAMES DEAN

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to ...
JAMES DEAN

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
JAMES DEAN

The only greatness for man is immortality.
JAMES DEAN

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences li...
JAMES DEAN

I used to fly around quite a bit, you know? I took a lot of unnecessary chances on the highways. And...
JAMES DEAN

I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
JAMES DEAN

Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things ...
JAMES DEAN

I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me. I don't w...
JAMES DEAN

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is end...
JAMES DEAN

The only way to make a scene realistic is to do it the way you know it would really happen.
JAMES DEAN

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and im...
JAMES DEAN

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
JAMES DEAN

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
JAMES DEAN

You try to be yourself, do only what you've always done and like to do, and right away, you'...
JAMES DEAN

Racing is the only time I feel whole.
JAMES DEAN

Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life...
JAMES DEAN

I'm a serious-minded and intense little devil, terribly gauche and so tense I don't see how ...
JAMES DEAN

Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.
KEVIN JAMES

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why...
JAMES WOODS

I've done a lot of work in the gym preparing myself for what is certain to be pretty strenuous p...
JAMES HIBBERD

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic current...
WILLIAM JAMES

Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew th...
JAMES HOWE

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce...
WILLIAM JAMES

Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration,...
JAMES LANKFORD

I'm a big cardigan sweater guy.
JAMES FRANCO

No one forgets their first love. You're experiencing all those endorphins and all that dopamine ...
JAMES MARSDEN

I loved all the princess films, and I grew up with them, and I think it's really cool how they&#...
LILY JAMES

You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-a...
JAMES SUROWIECKI

Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the sho...
JAMES HECKMAN

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
WILLIAM JAMES

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of respondin...
JAMES ALLEN

A man is literally what he thinks.
JAMES ALLEN

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a ...
JAMES ALLEN

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and y...
JAMES ALLEN

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.
LEBRON JAMES

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I p...
LEBRON JAMES

I'm confident with my ability.
LEBRON JAMES

Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and l...
LEBRON JAMES

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the ...
LEBRON JAMES

There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly w...
LEBRON JAMES

Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you h...
LEBRON JAMES

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.
LEBRON JAMES

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.
LEBRON JAMES

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.
LEBRON JAMES

I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.
LEBRON JAMES

Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it...
JAMES DENTON

There's nothing wrong with falling in love and sharing your life with someone.
LILY JAMES

The gratitude of the nation to the Sovereign Arbiter of All Human Events should be commensurate with the boundless blessings which we enjoy.

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The gratitude of the nation to the Sovereign Arbiter of All Human Events should be commensurate with the boundless blessings which we enjoy.

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