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"Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny."
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"As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom."

"Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitution, were oblivious, careless, or otherwise unaware of the words they chose for the document and its Bill of Rights."

"Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution."

"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."

"I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution."

"But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man."

"As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate."

"One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just 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."

"The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled."
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"It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever."

"The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people."

"Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may."

"How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems."

"We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty."

"The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God."
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