Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1997: Testimony of members of Congress and other interested individuals and organizations

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Page 1002 - I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. No constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.
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Page 1039 - I would like to thank you, Mr. Chairman, and the members of this committee for...
Page 785 - Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with evergrowing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.
Page 544 - ... PRESIDENT, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE OUTDOOR RECREATION LIAISON OFFICERS Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee, I appreciate very much the opportunity to testify before you concerning the FY 1979 Land and Water Conservation Fund Appropriations. I am the Director of State Parks of Oregon. I appear today in my capacity as the President of the National Association of State Outdoor Recreation Liaison Officers. Our organization is made up of the 55 State Liaison Officers appointed by the...
Page 106 - Amendments of 1990, to improve the quality, availability, and organization of health care and support services for persons with HIV disease and their families.
Page 108 - Health; the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration; the Centers for Disease Control; the Food and Drug Administration; the Health Resources and Services Administration; and the National Institutes of Health.
Page 277 - The American Cancer Society is the nationwide, community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer through research, education, advocacy, and service.
Page 47 - No qualified student who wants to go to college should be barred by lack of money. That has long been a great American goal ; I propose that we achieve it now.
Page 61 - WE, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America.