Top 52 Quotes by Noah Feldman

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These are some quotes by American author Noah Feldman Author, who was born in 1970.

Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.

Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.

Noah Feldman

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the major international question was the relation between Islam and democracy.

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the major international question was the relation between Islam and democracy.

Noah Feldman

In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have.

In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have.

Noah Feldman

Well-meaning Europeans sometimes argue that unlike the U.S., their countries are traditionally 'homogeneous' and have little experience with immigration.

Well-meaning Europeans sometimes argue that unlike the U.S., their countries are traditionally 'homogeneous' and have little experience with immigration.

Noah Feldman

The transformation of the United States from a traditional republic to a democratic nation run in large measure by a single executive took a couple of hundred years.

The transformation of the United States from a traditional republic to a democratic nation run in large measure by a single executive took a couple of hundred years.

Noah Feldman

Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community.

Noah Feldman

The modern presidency, as expressed in the policies of the administration of George W. Bush, provides the strongest piece of evidence that we are governed by a fundamentally different Constitution from that of the framers.

Noah Feldman

It is often noted that it can be hard for democracies to fight wars because of changing public opinion.

It is often noted that it can be hard for democracies to fight wars because of changing public opinion.

Noah Feldman

What is driving the tendency to discount Joseph Smith's revelations is not that they seem less reasonable than those of Moses; it is that the book containing them is so new. When it comes to prophecy, antiquity breeds authenticity. Events in the distant past, we tend to think, occurred in sacred, mythic time.

Noah Feldman

The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players arranged in parties.

The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players arranged in parties.

Noah Feldman

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