James K. Polk quote: "The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended to be one of limited and specified powers."

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

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

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 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

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

The gratitude of the nation to the Sovereign Arbiter of All Human Events should be commensurate with...
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

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

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

[...] as Kurt Vonnegut pointed out [...] the literary novel has become extraordinarily privatistic o...
JAMES K. MORROW

It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.
JAMES K. FEIBLEMAN

A truly great hug comes when you squeeze just hard enough to share a heartbeat.
JAMES K. COLEMAN

The next time somebody announces that he plans to get Medieval on your ass, tell him you're going to...
JAMES K. MORROW

There was an otherworldly quality about him, the aura of one privy to secret communiques in forgotte...
JAMES K. MORROW

There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxho...
JAMES K. MORROW

A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.
K

All the mysteries of the universe are solved within the Imagination.
K. FORD K.

When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I wen...
K. FLAY

My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.
K. FLAY

I went in reverse with this whole thing. People I've toured with were kids who consumed as much ...
K. FLAY

A lot of people don't even listen to albums start to finish, but I do - for sure.
K. FLAY

I think, on the rap side of life, I've always been inspired by and respected Missy Elliott for a...
K. FLAY

Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuse...
K. FLAY

Pre-show, I warm up my voice, stretch, do a little team huddle, and sometimes throw a shot of whiske...
K. FLAY

I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost...
K. FLAY

My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of s...
K. FLAY

I love playing in Chicago. It's the memory lane hometown, which is really nice.
K. FLAY

I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present...
K. FLAY

The more I talk to people who are at a place I'd like to be at, whether its music or writing, or...
K. FLAY

When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the y...
K. FLAY

As an independent artist, you control the means of production, which is the ultimate form of empower...
K. FLAY

More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
K. FLAY

It's like there's this boldness that I have where I'm driven by something that I can'...
K. FLAY

Most of the people at my headline shows are in their 20s, but it varies a ton: like, I've had a ...
K. FLAY

There are people who are profoundly mentally ill. But we now have a very weird perspective on mental...
K. FLAY

There's something distinct and interesting about a live performance. There's this weird imme...
K. FLAY

My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates el...
K. FLAY

Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even af...
K. FLAY

A college degree is not essential, but if you're already in college, and if it's at all poss...
K. FLAY

Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be...
K. FLAY

The more time passes in your life, I think the greater you understand perspective. So I'm happy ...
K. FLAY

Remember, when the judgment's weak, the prejudice is strong.
K. O'HARA

There's only so many variations on the basics of human relationships. To me, it's all about ...
K. FLAY

I've always had a duck personality. Calm above water, feet going crazy below.
K. FLAY

My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was ...
K. FLAY

Even the dark places are places. You're still somewhere.
K. FLAY

I was thinking about how we're so in touch with our image now. That conception of ourselves, in ...
K. FLAY

What's become a big theme in my music is my dad as a narrative character. I never had the opport...
K. FLAY

I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I re...
K. FLAY

Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much ...
K. FLAY

My future is just a mirage. The more I expect from it, it just turns out to be mere reflections.
MARIA K

when your child is born, you know that of all the lives you might have lived, only this one was ever...
K WILCOX

I'm done with temporary... I need permanence!
K. MARQUES

Remember This: People give advice, not to hurt you but, to keep you from getting hurt. They see thin...
K. MARQUES

If you aren't worth it to them, they shouldn't be worth it to you.
K. MARQUES

Big Love and More Light!
XxMwaaahhhhXx
K. LOVE

Love one another. Love yourself. Then love will find you whole not half.
K. TAYLOR

Never tread lightly. Leave a deep impression wherever you go.
K. RAFFERTY

The beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair
RELIENT K

Books are like ice cream; there is a flavor for everyone!
K. LAMB

and I'm trying so hard, with all my heart and mind, to make your life as good as you've made mine...
RELIENT K

We should get jerseys, cause we make a good team; but yours would look better than mine, cause you'r...
RELIENT K

Here comes the best part,” I say, realizing that I’ve spoken aloud the words I always tease Hadd...
K. BROMBERG

Without knowing anything else about him, i already know he'd be worth the hurt.
K. BROMBERG

The beauty of grace is that it makes like not fair.
RELIENT K

Love can hurt sometimes. Sometimes the things that make you happy can bring you sadness. But you hav...
CAITLYN K

Our heads are full of comparisons, needs for approval and attention, a desire to be at other places,...
LIDIYA K.

Are you mad?” She breathes from behind me. I spin around to face her.
“What do you think?�...
K. LARS

Lane, I will become attached to you. It happens with everyone. Something about my personality makes ...
K. WEBSTER

I’ve noticed that most of us don’t realize how important this moment is. They take it for grante...
LIDIYA K.

Making many mistakes
Doesn't make you a failure
It makes you become more successful
K-GIRL

We can't always be the bridge. Sometimes we have to be the flooding river.
K. WEIKEL

But, Leader, she is wrong -

"Maybe she is," Quill say and looks at Becca. Her heart poun...
K. WEIKEL

You wouldn't want to trade the eternal loop of your life for an infinite loop in the world of ideas,...
JOE K.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. ~Oliver Wendal...
K. LANGSTON

Saying everything is okay doesn't make you a grown-up.
K. WEIKEL

Are my own thoughts bad?
K. WEIKEL

We will no longer be outcasts - we will be rulers.
K. WEIKEL

A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, s...
K. FLAY

This life we all receive is full of invisible boundaries and abstract values.
K. CONLEY

There is always going to be evil as long as goodness lives on.
K. WEIKEL

Sometimes an angel is found in the dark.
K. WEBSTER

Then, I exit her apartment. With practiced efficiency, I engage all of the locks in seconds. I want ...
K. WEBSTER

Violet makes me better,” I tell him, confidence in my tone. He smirks. “I can see that. I can se...
K. WEBSTER

It’s a penis not an introduction to the president.
K. WEBSTER

To achieve true beauty, you have to look within, before you change without.
K. RAFFERTY

In that case, which would be the lesser of two evils—terror cabin with a psycho or beach estate wi...
K. WEBSTER

I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of thei...
K. FLAY

I think a part of me thought that I might be interested in academia because I really do love school....
K. FLAY

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

I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've s...
LOUIS C. K.

Men, in fact, are excited and looking forward to settling down and having families and being true pa...
IAN K. SMITH

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.
J. K. ROWLING

When I read things like the foundations of capitalism are shattering, I'm like, maybe we need th...
LOUIS C. K.

I'd always had the concern that being in commercials would affect my credibility when I was gett...
J. K. SIMMONS

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
J. K. ROWLING

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
J. K. ROWLING

I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wis...
J. K. ROWLING

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
J. K. ROWLING

Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
J. K. ROWLING

Women want to feel wanted. Men want to feel needed.
IAN K. SMITH

People think that you can save calories by eating fewer meals a day, but it works just the opposite:...
IAN K. SMITH

I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
IAN K. SMITH

The critical part with meal spacing is that you stabilize your hormones so that you do not have thos...
IAN K. SMITH

Death just comes, not happiness. Because when you're trying to find happiness, you're trying...
IAN K. SMITH

Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
IAN K. SMITH

A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues suc...
IAN K. SMITH

Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in...
IAN K. SMITH

The idea behind diet confusion is, you have to keep your body off-kilter. So by changing the type of...
IAN K. SMITH

People have to realize that dieting is not a sprint, it's a marathon. If you celebrate the small...
IAN K. SMITH

I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
IAN K. SMITH

But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I t...
K. ERIC DREXLER

Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid mole...
K. ERIC DREXLER

It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will...
K. ERIC DREXLER

You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on...
K. ERIC DREXLER

The other advantage is that in conventional manufacturing processes, it takes a long time for a fact...
K. ERIC DREXLER

The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, ...
K. ERIC DREXLER

An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessari...
K. ERIC DREXLER

After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atom...
K. ERIC DREXLER

My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportat...
K. ERIC DREXLER

On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per...
K. ERIC DREXLER

And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with,...
K. ERIC DREXLER

The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended to be one of limited and specified powers.

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