Repeal Quotes

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Erik Pevernagie
“When love is roaming in our mind, looping in the deepest fringes of our heart, undreamt spaciousness emerges, repealing the constraints of triviality and letting stifling narrowness fade away. While our mindset is besieged by a revolving burst of emotion, our world is ultimately opening up. (Cape of good hope)”
Erik Pevernagie

G.K. Chesterton
“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How many people we have heard abuse the British elementary schools, as they would abuse the British climate? How few have we met who realized that British education can be altered, but British weather cannot?...For a thousand that regret compulsory education, where is the hundred, or the ten, or the one, who would repeal compulsory education? …At the beginning of our epoch men talked with equal ease about Reform and Repeal. Now everybody talks about reform; nobody talks about repeal.”
G.K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils : An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

“Just one person and an idea. Sometimes that's all it takes, in the end.”
Una Mullally, Repeal the 8th

Thomas Jefferson
“Every constitution, then, every law naturally expires at the end of 19 years...If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force and not of right...

The people cannot assemble themselves; their representation is unequal and vicious. Various checks are opposed to every legislative proposition. Factions get possession of public councils. Bribery corrupts them. Personal interests lead them astray from the general interests of their constituents; and other impediments arise so as to prove to every practical man that a law of limited duration is much more manageable than one that needs repeal...”
Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson