Quote by Thomas Jefferson

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it

Summary

This quote suggests that if the current Congress is criticized for excessive talking, it is to be expected when the people elect numerous lawyers as representatives. Lawyers are known for their inclination to question everything, reject compromise, and engage in lengthy debates. Therefore, it is implied that the abundance of lawyers in Congress leads to an environment of excessive talking and little progress.

Topics

By Thomas Jefferson

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

You told me the truth when you said to me once, There's a so

You told me the truth when you said to me once, There's a sort of wrong that can never be made up for.

You need people who can walk their companies into the future

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.

Warren G. Bennis

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a resu

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The way to be with God in every season is to strive to be ne

The way to be with God in every season is to strive to be near Him every week and each day.

Thomas S. Monson

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor thing

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

Roger Bannister

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

Reality Mind Human Intellectual

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses ar

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was really like waking up one morning and going, Wow, I e

It was really like waking up one morning and going, Wow, I enjoy being with this person more than anybody else in my life, and it just turned out to be mutual.

Brian Austin Green

Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's

Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is took weak and fuddled to shake off.

Humanity Soul Demon Nothing Screwtape

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property

When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?