The Supreme Court has never ruled that Congress can use the Commerce Clause to require individuals to engage in an activity they have chosen to avoid. Yet that is precisely what Obamacare does: It forces Americans without health insurance to purchase coverage. Such a requirement is unprecedented and unconstitutional.
I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work and then purchase health insurance or whatever it is.
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
The future is purchased by the present.
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career maybe even more. When I put them all together I know I am a net loser.
The institution of a public library containing books on education would be well adapted for the information of teachers many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.
What some call health if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet isn't much better than tedious disease.
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me give me liberty or give me death!
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.
China has legally purchased high performance computers advanced machine tools and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.
You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
It was Public Art defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.