Constitution Quotes
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[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.
Theodore Parker
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A Constitution should be short and obscure
Napoleon Bonaparte
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From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.
Leon Jaworski
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The Constitution does not grant rights, it recognizes them
Jason Laumark
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The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag
Craig Washington
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I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag
Craig Washington
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" Ah, this is the constitution," he said. "Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind ...
Alexander Hamilton
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I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.
Benjamin Disraeli
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The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.
Patrick Henry
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I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation
Dr. Carl Sagan
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Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin
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Don`t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
Abraham Lincoln
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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln
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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln
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I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.
James Madison
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The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon
George Washington
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I have never felt I was being ill-treated by the press - ill-treated by Barbra Streisand, maybe. But Ms. Streisand I suggest is inadequately educated on the Constitution of the United States.
Charlton Heston
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The Constitution was handed down to guide us by a bunch of those wise old, dead, white guys who invented this country. It`s true - they were white guys. So were most of the guys who died in Lincoln`s name, opposing slavery in the 1860s. So, why should I b...
Charlton Heston
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You have a real constitution that protects freedom of religion, freedom of association, freedom of speech and freedom of conscience. These protections are among the most far-reaching of any in the region and probably around the world.
Antonia Mochan
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Yes, there is a topic (the Constitution), but what we have to think about is whether we think it is appropriate for the government to select a topic.
Rebecca Brown
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With the Constitution they set something in motion that is a pretty extraordinary document and a recipe for the way you would want people to live.
Emmylou Harris
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Why in the world would high courts want to give deference to a legislature to revoke constitutional rights they have deemed implicit in their interpretation of the constitution. This is disturbing rhetoric from a Montgomery County legislator who`s always ...
Anthony Gooch
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While thousands are dying in Iraq, here at home our government is waging a new war, a `war on dissent` that threatens to dismantle the constitution and severely challenge our country`s basic democratic principles of free speech and peaceful assembly.
Atiyyah Henderson
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While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of eminent domain for those purposes that specifically serve the public good, condemning property solely to implement economic development plans is not serving th...
Andrea Vinyard
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When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It`s not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.
Jesse Ventura
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When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It`s like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.
Bill Lee
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What the people of Iraq have accomplished to date is historic and impressive, and we`re confident that they`ll put that same commitment and dedication to work in enacting the laws that will enforce this constitution.
Antonia Mochan
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Well, today, we are in the struggle brought on to us by the terrorists of Islam. It is a war that we did not choose. It was a war that was declared against us as Americans, against our people, against our Constitution.
Andrew Fellows
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Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
Angela Davis
