As the founding articles of the WTO put it, "any advantage, favour, privilege or immunity" granted to one member should be extended to all.
But it was still very much an open question whether, as Lincoln later put it, "any nation so conceived and so dedicated could long endure" in the absence of a central government along Federalist lines.
As the Institute for Fiscal Studies' authoritative Mirrlees Review of Britain's tax system put it, "any revaluation inevitably creates losers and winners – and losers tend to be very vocal".
Russia's opposition is too weak to block ratification here, though Mr. Margelov said he expected vigorous criticism from Communists in Parliament, for whom, as he put it, "any agreement with the United States is considered a kind of betrayal of the motherland".
As the ACLU's Zachary Katznelson, who observed today's proceedings, put it "any plea deal and testimony must be seen in the context of Khan's years of secret, incommunicado detention and torture at the hands of the CIA, and the prospect of trial by an unfair military commissions system".
Clapper is under intense pressure from legislators displeased by his March testimony to the Senate intelligence committee's Ron Wyden (Democrat, Oregon) that the NSA did "not wittingly" collect, as Wyden put it, "any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans".
As Adams put it: "any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with".
We couldn't have put it any better ourselves.
"I can't put it any other way.
