"I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written."
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"You either believe in the Constitution, or you don't."
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"Freedom works, it turns out; the Constitution codified and structured freedom at a level unparalleled in world history."
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"[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment."
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"Idleness ruins the constitution"
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"We have introduced a democratic constitution, which put suvery South African on an equal basis."
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"Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake of the superior, but the rational for the sake of one another."
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"No for the return of Saddam's Baath party. This is against the constitution and those who are negotiating to bring them back are violating the constitution."
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"It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution."
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"There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover."
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"We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself."
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"[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures."
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"[The adoption of the Constitution] will demonstrate as visibly the finger of Providence as any possible event in the course of human affairs can ever designate it."
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"The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast."
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"[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect."
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"Americans worship the Constitution but do not observe it."
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"Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?"
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"The divine science of government is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend entirely on the constitutions of government."
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"The Constitution doesn't mention rain."
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"The Constitution is a living, breathing document that can speak to you and nobody else."
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