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"God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, This is my Country. "

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"It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God. "

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"Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in peacethe next will be drawn in blood. "

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"Contempt is not a thing to be despised. "

Burke, Edmund on uncategorised    Share

"I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases. "

Burke, Edmund on uncategorised    Share

"In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised    Share

"Dont interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. "

Lincoln, Abraham on uncategorised    Share

"The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is a still more serious objection against a frequent reference of constitutional questions to the decision of the whole society. "

Madison, James on uncategorised    Share

"I hope your committee will not permit doubts as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation. "

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on uncategorised    Share

"And lastly, let us provide in our constitution for its revision at stated periods. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised    Share

"The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised
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"I always say, as you know, that if my fellow citizens want to go to Hell I will help them. Its my job. "

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on uncategorised    Share

"We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property under the Constitution. "

Hughes, Charles Evans on uncategorised    Share

"The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive. "

Gibbon, Edward on uncategorised    Share

"Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves. "

Clark, Ramsey on uncategorised    Share

"The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom. "

Coolidge, Calvin on uncategorised    Share

"To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race. "

Coolidge, Calvin on uncategorised    Share

"We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its substance and practical working even when its words remain the same. "

Bryce, James on uncategorised    Share

"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. "

Disraeli, Benjamin on uncategorised    Share

"Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law that neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily taken for the future. "

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"The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value. "

Roosevelt, Theodore on uncategorised
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"A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise. "

Twain, Mark on uncategorised    Share

"To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman. "

Twain, Mark on uncategorised    Share

"We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty. "

Webster, Daniel on uncategorised    Share

"I never know what South Carolina thinks of a measure. I never consult her. I act to the best of my judgment, and according to my conscience. If she approves, well and good. If she does not, or wishes any one to take my place, I am ready to vacate. We are even. "

Calhoun, John C. on uncategorised    Share

"When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isnt a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. "

Clemenceau, Georges on uncategorised    Share

"I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine. "

Markham, Edwin on uncategorised    Share

"In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution [the Senate], it will be proper to take a view of the ends to be served by it. These were,first, to protect the people against their rulers, secondly, to protect the people against the transient impressions into which they themselves might be led. "

Madison, James on uncategorised    Share

"Do you pray for the Senators, Dr. Hale? someone asked the chaplain. No, I look at the Senators and pray for the country. "

Hale, Edward Everett on uncategorised    Share

"Ive said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!"

Truman, Harry S on uncategorised    Share

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