Compact Quotes

Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.

Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered.

Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.

Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That's the kind of game we have to play here and it will be very difficult to beat us.

Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time.

The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.

Social Security is something that we need to deal with, because people who are working today, who will retire in the future, people who are retired today, they have a right - and it's part of the compact that they can depend on their benefits. We should fix the long-term funding problem of Social Security because that's the right thing to do.

There are many skiers who have chosen tele for a more compact, streamlined skiing system.

It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

I have the most lovely, healthy bouncing baby, she was all very compact and the right size.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.

The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the team is really strong and compact. We know what we want and how to achieve it on the pitch.

What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.

My view was that the campaign had been a sacred thing, that it had been a real compact, because I was there and I saw the connection that Clinton made with people, and the connection that they made with him.

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is.

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can't be resolved.

If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.