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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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"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."
"They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened."
"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."
"I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution."
"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."
"The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution."
"I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution."
"This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the Social Europe which we wish."
"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."
"And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The Constitution doesn't say that. The Constitution doesn't say that that nominee shall have any vote at all. There doesn't have to even be a vote."
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"I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business."
"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."
"I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education."
"As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way."
"Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money."
"The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future."
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