“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.” ThinkingLongImportantFoundChangeLibertyOpinionSubjectsInformationConstitutionInstanceConsiderationObligedConstitution Of The United StatesInfallibilityConstitutional Convention Author:Benjamin Franklin
“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.” LongHas BeensLawCausesMy OwnEvolutionEternalConstitutionAssociationLatentUnchangeablePredestined Author:Quintus Curtius Rufus
“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.” PeopleMenLoveLongGovernmentLawNamesJusticeHigherHonorMercyConstitutionFellowsNightmareRighteousnessRepublicHigher Power Author:Gerald R. Ford
“For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or boisterous, is entitled to defy a court of law. If this country should ever reach the point where any man or group of men by force or threat of force could long defy the commands of our court and our Constitution, then no law would stand free from doubt, no judge would be sure of his writ, and no citizen would be safe from his neighbors.” IfsMenShouldLongCountryGovernmentWould BeLawForcePowerfulDoubtGroupsJudgingCitizensSafeConstitutionCourtThreatNeighborCommandEntitledProminentUnrulyBoisterous Author:John F. Kennedy
“It has been believed for a long time in Japan that things such as the constitution can never be changed. I say we should change our constitution now. The U.S. has amended its constitution six times, but Japan has done it zero times.” ShouldLongHas BeensDoneChangedSixLong TimeConstitutionJapanZero Author:Shinzo Abe