Petitions Quotes

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!
Phyllis McGinley

Time, Christmas, Put

And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress.
Caleb Cushing

Whatever, House, Voice

I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
Caleb Cushing

After, Reason, House

If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions.
Caleb Cushing

Down, Cannot, Put

The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.
Caleb Cushing

Said, Matter, House

Petitions are ridiculous.
Shane MacGowan

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