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"Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression."
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"Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters."
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"Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators."
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"This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in the not-too-remote future, the stout heart of Queen Elizabeth II will cease to beat. At that precise moment, her firstborn son will become head of state, head of the armed forces, and head of the Church of England. In strict constitutional terms, this ought not to matter much. The English monarchy, as has been said, reigns but does not rule. From the aesthetic point of view it will matter a bit, because the prospect of a morose bat-eared and chinless man, prematurely aged, and with the most abysmal taste in royal consorts, is a distinctly lowering one."
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"I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary, altogether excludes it."
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"Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean."
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"But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man."
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"Each state in the Union is honored in the order of when it ratified the Constitution and became a part of the United States. This September it is Iowa's turn. Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the union on December 28, 1846."
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"I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag."
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"The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President."
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"Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum."
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"It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored."
Gratitude
"Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression."
Constitution
"Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government."
Government
"With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses."
President
"The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves."
Government
"Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world."
Peace
"The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government."
Government
"I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign."
Will
"One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights."
Constitution
"There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S."
Integrity
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