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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. "

Franklin, Benjamin on uncategorised   

"You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such an obligation upon any part of the American people. My country owes me no debt. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope. My whole life has taught me what America means. I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay. "

Hoover, Herbert Clark on uncategorised   

"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. "

Washington, George on uncategorised   

"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. "

Washington, George on uncategorised   

"Contempt is not a thing to be despised. "

Burke, Edmund on uncategorised   

"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   

"If in the opinion of the People, the distribution or modification of the Constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. "

Washington, George on uncategorised   

"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   

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

Lincoln, Abraham on uncategorised   

"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   

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on uncategorised   

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

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised   

"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   

"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   

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

Gibbon, Edward on uncategorised   

"Whilst the last members were signing [the Constitution], Doctor Franklin, looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him, that painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art, a rising, from a setting, sun. I have, said he, often and often, in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President, without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting; but now at length, I have the happiness to know, that it is a rising, and not a setting sun. "

Franklin, Benjamin on uncategorised
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"Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves. "

Clark, Ramsey on uncategorised   

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

Coolidge, Calvin on uncategorised   

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

Coolidge, Calvin on uncategorised   

"I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. "

Franklin, Benjamin on uncategorised   

"In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government, but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered; and believe further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. "

Franklin, Benjamin on uncategorised
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"Is not every man sometimes a radical in politics? Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick, or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused; when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals. "

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on uncategorised   

"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   

"Here in the United States we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping-grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy forests, and exterminate fishes, birds, and mammalsnot to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements. But at last it looks as if our people were awakening. Many leading men, Americans and Canadians, are doing all they can for the Conservation movement. "

Roosevelt, Theodore on uncategorised   

"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   

"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. "

Roosevelt, Theodore on uncategorised   

"The idea that our natural resources were inexhaustible still obtained, and there was as yet no real knowledge of their extent and condition. The relation of the conservation of natural resources to the problems of National welfare and National efficiency had not yet dawned on the public mind. The reclamation of arid public lands in the West was still a matter for private enterprise alone; and our magnificent river system, with its superb possibilities for public usefulness, was dealt with by the National Government not as a unit, but as a disconnected series of pork-barrel problems, whose only real interest was in their effect on the reelection or defeat of a Congressman here and therea theory which, I regret to say, still obtains. "

Roosevelt, Theodore on uncategorised   

"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   

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

Twain, Mark on uncategorised   

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

Webster, Daniel on uncategorised   

"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   

"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   

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

Markham, Edwin on uncategorised   

"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   

"Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands. As long therefore as they can find emploiment in this line, I would not convert them into mariners, artisans, or any thing else. But our citizens will find emploiment in this line till their numbers, and of course their productions, become too great for the demand both internal and foreign. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised   

"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   

"There is only one thing I wast to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I think a mistake has been made of recent years in Ohio in failing to continue as our representatives the same people term after term. I do not need to tell a Washington audience, among whom there are certainly some who have been interested in legislation, that length of service in the House and in the Senate is what gives influence. "

Taft, William Howard on uncategorised   

"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