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Source: The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author

“Even the country's first president chafed at the limits placed on him by the writers of the U.S. Constitution. From the nature of the Constitution, ... I must approve all the parts of a bill, or reject it in toto.”

Firsts Country President Limits Constitution Bills Rejects

Author:George Washington

“Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.”

Trying Dies Natural Alive Constitution Vices Curious Calumny Natural Death Calumny Is

Book:Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

“A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation, that is always ailing, yet will wither the robuster characters of a hundred prudes.”

Character Hundred Constitution Credit Tales Reputation Strongest Scandal Fever Prudent Prudes

Author:Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince”

Form Freedom Arms Balance Capable Constitution Property Enterprise Possessed Stubborn Nobility Assembly Tenacious

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“The court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the Constitution.”

Conscience Constitution Court Keepers

Author:William O. Douglas

“It would be a serious mistake to replace a seasoned statesman with a tempermental tycoon who has no respect for the constitution.”

Would Be Mistake Serious Constitution Statesmen No Respect Serious Mistakes Tycoons

Author:Dan Quayle

“Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.”

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Author:Rufus Choate

“Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted to each taste, to each particular constitution.”

Looks Spirit Speak Beauty Particular Taste Thousand Constitution Adapted

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“I will not step down, I will not resign, ... I will work to the end of my term in office under the constitution. In the year 2000, there will be presidential elections under the constitution and I will not run in those elections.”

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Author:Boris Yeltsin

“I voted 'yes' and I urge all Iraqis, no matter their different ethnicities and religions ... to vote 'yes' to the constitution”

Different Matter Vote Constitution Isolation Urges Ethnicity

Author:Jalal Talabani

“For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predestined.”

Long Has Beens Law Causes My Own Evolution Eternal Constitution Association Latent Unchangeable Predestined

Author:Quintus Curtius Rufus

“All civil states, with their officers of justice, in their respective constitutions and administrations, are proved essentially civil, and therefore not judges, governors, or defenders of the spiritual, or Christian, state and worship.”

States Christian Spiritual Justice Judging Civilization Worship Constitution Administration Officers Governors Defenders

Book:On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger Williams

Source: On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger Williams

“Hard labour to succeed in the world? Hard labour no, no, human constitution, human physiology, human intelligence is made of infinite creative potential of Natural Law and therefore no-one has to work hard for success.”

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Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“A clear enunciation of these rights needs to be enshrined in the constitution to guarantee that this basic right of law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen shall not be infringed upon by anti-gun public officials.”

Needs Law Clear Rights Gun Constitution Officials Guarantees Owners Abiding Guarantees That Sportsman Gun Owners Public Officials Anti Gun

Author:Charlton Heston

“We have to yet really seriously debate the constitutional issues and whether or not we're willing to give up more freedom in order to have more security.”

Giving Order Freedom Issues Security Willing Giving Up Constitution Debate

Author:William Cohen

“I was the legal counsel in the effort to amend the Virginia Constitution to give Virginians the right to hunt and fish constitutionally, and we are one of the few states in the country to protect that right.”

Giving Country States Effort Protect Constitution Fishes Hunts Virginia Virginians

Author:Tim Kaine

“Rejection would be a disaster for the U.S., but ratification alone will not end our problems in Iraq. Even if the constitution is ratified, the insurgents are not going to lay down their arms.”

Ifs Ends Problem Would Be Arms Constitution Lays Iraq Disaster Rejection Insurgent

Author:Andrew Bacevich

“If we do not get a universal acceptance of the constitution the likelihood of the violence continuing is there. If it had been an inclusive exercise -- as when everybody had embraced the constitution and everyone saw his interest protected by the constitution -- I think it would have been a rallying exercise. We are not there at this stage”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Interest Saws Violence Stage Acceptance Exercise Universal Constitution Protected Continuing Likelihood Rallying

Author:Kofi Annan

“One of the most solemn responsibilities of the president and it's set out expressly in the Constitution is that the president is to take care that the laws are faithfully executed, and that means the Constitution. It means statutes. It means treaties. It means all of the laws of the United States.”

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Author:Samuel Alito

“These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: voting in two elections at the risk of their lives, preparing for a third, writing and ratifying a constitution granting more freedoms than exist in any country in the entire Arab Middle East. The secret is out, There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, but a society is finding its way to constitutional politics.”

“The importance of the Bible to a church is to keep the church on track. The role of the Constitution in government is to keep the government on track.”

Government Church Roles Importance Constitution Track

Author:Ted Haggard

“The Constitution gives us a standard to follow. We cannot define impeachable offenses to a greater degree than the language of the Constitution. But we all agree the issue is the public trust. Our duty is not to punish anyone. And our challenge is to avoid pettiness.”

Giving Language Challenges Issues Greater Duty Degrees Standards Constitution Agree Offense Pettiness Public Trust

Author:Asa Hutchinson

“The Constitution is the fundamental rule for people to live in society. If the rule no longer suits the lives of the general public due to changing times, it should be changed. That goes for regular laws as well as the Constitution.”

People Ifs Should Wells Law Changed Constitution Fundamentals Dues Suits General Public

Author:Ichiro Ozawa

“During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under martial law have been so numerous as to have become an old story. They are attacked at the instigation of an economically and socially powerful class, itself enjoying to the full the advantages of free communications, but bent on denying them to the class it holds within its power.”

“The fact that you are here tonight gathered together with us testifies to the fact you understand the need for this organization and the need for redoubling our efforts in this organization to try to assure that democracy as represented by the United States must depend upon a total freedom of religion, which is written into our Constitution, of course, and the mere suggestion that anyone could maintain that one's patriotism, one's devotion to one's country can be judged by one's religion is so vile, so vile that we have to take to the streets indeed and to put it aside.”

“The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.”

“In the United States we have, in effect, two governments ... We have the duly constituted Government ... Then we have an independent, uncontrolled and uncoordinated government in the Federal Reserve System, operating the money powers which are reserved to Congress by the Constitution.”

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Author:Wright Patman

“I vote Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters.”

Needs Believe Past I Believe Judging Vote Constitution Democrat Suits Voting Agendas Voters Fringe

Author:David Letterman

“My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule. But there is a higher Power, by whatever name we honor Him, who ordains not only righteousness but love, not only justice but mercy.”

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Author:Gerald R. Ford

“I congratulate you and my country on the singular favor of heaven in the peaceable and auspicious settlement of our government upon a Constitution formed by wisdom, and sanctified by the solemn choice of the people who are to live under it. May the Supreme ruler of the world be pleased to establish and perpetuate these new foundations of liberty and glory....Thank God, my country is saved and by the smile of Heaven I am a free and independant man.”

People Men World May Country Government Choices Heaven Liberty Glory Constitution Foundation Favors Saved Supreme Thank God Rulers Solemn Settlement

Author:John Hancock

“The Constitution was made for the people and not the people for the Constitution.”

People Made Constitution

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs to them and not to their servants in office—any other theory is incompatible with the foundation principles of our government.”

People Mean Government Principles Judging Theory Office Constitution Foundation Servant Entitled

Book:Majority Rule and the Judiciary: An Examination of Current Proposals for Constitutional Change Affecting the Relation of Courts to Legislation

Source: Majority Rule and the Judiciary: An Examination of Current Proposals for Constitutional Change Affecting the Relation of Courts to Legislation

“The Constitution is the bedrock of all our freedoms; guard and cherish it; keep honor and order in your own house; and the republic will endure.”

Order House Honor Constitution Endure Cherish Republic Bedrock

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“I don't agree when the USA, that lives by a constitution, says, OK, just because you look this way, we're going to ask you for your documentation, or you gotta go back to your country.”

Way Looks Country Asks Constitution Agree Usa Live By Documentation

Author:Pitbull

“Public opinion: May it always perform one of its appropriate offices, by teaching the public functionaries of the State and of the Federal Government, that neither shall assume the exercise of powers entrusted by the Constitution to the other.”

May States Government Opinion Teaching Exercise Office Constitution Assuming Presidential Appropriate Federal Government Public Opinion

Author:James K. Polk

“I want to say to every man, the Constitution of the United States, as formed by our fathers, was dictated, was revealed, was put into their hearts by the Almighty, who sits enthroned in the midst of the heavens; although unknown to them, it was dictated by the revelations of Jesus Christ, and I tell you in the name of Jesus Christ, it is as good as I could ask for.”

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