Quotes & Sayings About Northwest Ordinance

People don't come back any more. Haven't you noticed that, Monsieur? — Patrick Modiano

And so Jefferson wrote the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which organized the new territories of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin so that slavery would be permanently illegal there. — Allen C. Guelzo

Here is a basic truth: To do anything, we must first believe it can be done. — David J. Schwartz

Be ashamed of your hatred. Give up hatred and be quiet. — Sathya Sai Baba

After an early legal and legislative life attempting to abolish slavery, Jefferson, now at midlife, made a calculated decision that he would no longer risk his "usefulness" in the arena by pressing the issue.55 (There was a partial victory later: The Northwest Ordinance of 178756 prohibited slavery north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi rivers.) In all, though, for Jefferson public life was about compromise and an unending effort to balance competing interests. To have pursued abolition, even when coupled, as it was in Jefferson's mind, with deportation, was politically lethal. And Jefferson was not going to risk all for what he believed was a cause whose time had not yet come. — Jon Meacham

Learn not from imitating but from emulating. — Debasish Mridha

The worst of revolutions is a restoration. — Charles James Fox

The worst part is that you and me - we could have been amazing. We could have had it all, Logan. Everything. And you fucked it up. — Jay McLean

Increase your bets when you are confident and scale down your positions when you don't have conviction. — George Soros

Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that. — Venus Williams

Amazing uke playing to be relished. — Brian May

He that LOVES God considers the Word of God to be forever foremost. — Sunday Adelaja

Don't be too concerned about the wingnut ears. Anxiety produces the wrong pheromones. Roll with the punches. Make time for life around your deep abiding need to write. Say Yes more, but not always. Say No enough that you have a life. — Nick Earls

People cut off love for all kinds of reasons but generally it has to do with them, not with somebody else. — Edward Whittemore

Under the new government of the Constitution, beginning in 1789, all of the peacetime measures were repeated: chaplains, prayers, memorials of Thanksgiving, the Northwest Ordinance, funding for the Christian education of Indians. — M. Stanton Evans

Don't you get it? We are The Walking Dead! — Robert Kirkman