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"The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest."
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"A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward."
"The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights."
"If I am confirmed, I will commit to show Heller and the principles articulated in it the full measure of respect that is due to all constitution decisions of the court."
"From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law."
"For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it."
"Howard Phillips of the Constitution Party asked me to consider seriously running for president in 2008 and I am doing so."
"The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States."
"A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot."
"When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other."
"It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one."
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"Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men."
"The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same."
"We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today."
"Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?"
"Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will."
"Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to do the job."
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