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"Precedents are dangerous things; let the reins of government then be braced and held with a steady hand, and every violation of the Constitution be reprehended: If defective let it be amended, but not suffered to be trampled upon whilst it has an existence."
"Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!"
"The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution."
"The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be."
"We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it."
"The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion."
"The power under the Constitution will always be in the people."
"Our founders made it extraordinarily difficult to amend the Constitution."
"I often thought my constitution would never endure the work I had to do, (but) the Lord said to me: 'Daughter, obedience gives strength.'"
"The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all."
"God was left out of the Constitution, but was furnished a front seat in this nations currency. ("In God we Trust") is a lie, this nations trust has always been with the dollar."
"At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution."
"It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States."
"The core values of our constitution are at the heart of our nation's progress."
"The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'."
"Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine."
"The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now."
"The Constitution is ...the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen"
"I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may."
"A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state."
