Quotes with constitution

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  • Bob Latta Let the living give thanks to our honored dead who have paid the ultimate sacrifice that the Constitution of the United States remains our guiding light.
    Bob Latta
    American politician (1956 - )
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  • Adam Weishaupt Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Thomas Hardy Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Bill Haslam Men and women motivated by faith have every right and obligation to bring their belief and commitment to the public debate. However, that is very different from the governmental establishment of religion that our founders warned against and our constitution prohibits.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Barbara Jordan My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.
    Statement before House Judiciary Committee considering impeachment of Richard Nixon, 25 July 1974
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • William Howard Taft Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.
    William Howard Taft
    American politician, judge and President of the United States (1857 - 1930)
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  • John Stuart Mill No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Cal Thomas No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Obama's respect for the Constitution does not apply to protections against unreasonable search and seizure, as Obama's deeply intrusive National Security Agency programs prove.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Daniel Webster One country, one constitution, one destiny.
    Daniel Webster
    American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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  • Adrian Cronauer One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.
    Adrian Cronauer
    American air force radio personality during Vietnam War (1938 - 2018)
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  • John Adams Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Gerald R. Ford Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
    Gerald R. Ford
    American politician and 38th President of the United States (1913 - 2006)
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  • Benjamin Franklin 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
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Andrew Johnson Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.
    Andrew Johnson
    American politician and 17th US president (1808 - 1875)
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  • Ben Shapiro President Obama's respect for the Constitution does not extend to freedom of religion - his administration has forced religious businessowners to pay for insurance plans that cover activities in violation of religious precepts.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej Section 7 of the Constitution doesn't grant a power for the king to do whatever he wishes.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Ben Shapiro Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do the Constitution: as a Chinese menu designed to allow picking and choosing. That's because when many Democrats take the Bible as a whole, they realize how much they despise it.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Caleb Cushing Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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