"An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it."
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"The Constitution is not a suicide pact."
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"Preventing terrorist attacks is of the highest important, but trashing the Constitution is not the right way to do it."
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"That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution."
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"I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad."
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"No treaty or international agreement can contravene the Constitution."
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"I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust."
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"The Bible is the Constitution of Christianity."
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"I arose and spoke substantially as follows: ... I love the government and the constitution of the United States, but I do not love the damned rascals who administer the government."
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"I had the constitution of a missionary."
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"The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness."
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"EU expansion is, unfortunately, continuing without a constitution, as a gradual process of standardization - and that's far more dangerous. It is very difficult to slow down this process, which is being pushed forward without significant public participation."
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"The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading."
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"The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it."
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"[Marco] Rubio says we should collect all Americans' records all of the time. The Constitution says otherwise. I think they're both wrong. I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them."
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"All constitutions, those of the States no less than that of the nation, are designed, and must be interpreted and administered so as to fit human rights."
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"I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution."
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"Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief."
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"This is perhaps the most important statement on religion ever made. It clarified the intent of the founders of the constitution irrespective of the attempts of modern day religious revisionists."
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"I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless."
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