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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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| If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate. |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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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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| The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax |
| Thomas Paine |
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| The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain, and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use |
| Abraham Lincoln |
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| The chief foundations of all states... are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms... where there are good arms there must be good laws... |
| Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive |
| Edward Gibbon |
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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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| The United States has been declared under martial law...All constitutional rights have been suspended. Anyone interfering with the collection of urine samples will be shot. Anyone failing to attend morning school prayer will be shot. The number one enemy of progress is questions. National security is more important than individual rights. Sports broadcasts will proceed as scheduled. Shut up, be happy, obey all orders without question. At last everything is done for you. |
| Jello Biafra |
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